Cold Crematorium: Hunger and Hope in Auschwitz
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Cold Crematorium: Hunger and Hope in Auschwitz
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József Debreczeny was one of the most gifted Hungarian-speaking journalists and poets. Once in Auschwitz, he was to die exactly forty-five minutes after his arrival. Strictly according to the approved schedule. That was how long it took for the half-dead prisoners to be sorted into groups, stripped and sent to the gas chambers. However, the warders decided that it would be more profitable not to kill Debreceni at once, but to make him work. What followed was a torturous twelve-month journey through the "Land of Auschwitz." Like Dante, the author went through all the circles of the underworld: he was thrown from one camp to another, until finally Jozsef was plunged into the chilling darkness of the "Cold Crematorium" - the place where everyone was supposed to die... And thanks to this he was saved.
Debreczeni's memoir has been called "the most severe and merciless indictment of Nazism ever written". The author shows the mechanisms of slavery, the social hierarchy in the camps and the ways in which the Nazis destroyed not only human bodies, but also the souls of all people caught in the meat grinder of Auschwitz, where there is no intimacy, no comfort, no community, no heroism.... Clear and analytical style of presentation is combined with artistic expressiveness of the text. And although the gruesome and naturalistic descriptions of earthly hell sometimes become almost unbearable, nevertheless, thanks to the talent and sincerity of the author, it is impossible to tear oneself away from the book.
Debreczeni's memoir has been called "the most severe and merciless indictment of Nazism ever written". The author shows the mechanisms of slavery, the social hierarchy in the camps and the ways in which the Nazis destroyed not only human bodies, but also the souls of all people caught in the meat grinder of Auschwitz, where there is no intimacy, no comfort, no community, no heroism.... Clear and analytical style of presentation is combined with artistic expressiveness of the text. And although the gruesome and naturalistic descriptions of earthly hell sometimes become almost unbearable, nevertheless, thanks to the talent and sincerity of the author, it is impossible to tear oneself away from the book.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series Survivors. Poignant stories of the Holocaust