Elizabeth B. (Cattriona) - reviewed on 2/14/2008 + 200 more book reviews

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This is an incredible first person account of the author's period of imprisonment in Auschwitz. She was jailed as a political prisoner and worked in the camp infirmary to survive. She describes her own day to day struggles to survive, illnesses, bartering for food, escaping the selection for the gas chamber, her interactions with the "Doctor of Death" Joseph Mengele and, finally, her return to her Polish homeland at the end of the war. A gripping narrative, highly recommended.

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