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    Five Chimneys: A Woman Survivor's True Story of Auschwitz

    By Olga Lengyel

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    Olga Lengyel tells, frankly and without compromise, one of the most horrifying stories of all time. This true, documented chronicle is the intimate, day-to-day record of a beautiful woman who survived the nightmare of Auschwitz and Birchenau. This book is a necessary reminder of one of the ugliest chapters in the history of human civilization. It was a shocking experience. It is a shocking book.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChicago Review Press
    Release dateAug 30, 2005
    ISBN9780897336314

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    • 3/5
      People may nitpick, argue over what was real or not, but this book FIVE CHIMNEYS is the true story as seen through one womans eyes. AUSCHWITZ. The word alone stirs up fear ! I would think that the words and the reality would churn up your emotions....i would think that as a survivor it would be necessary to close off that part of your life. To dwell on it, to live it over and over would be emotional torture. So readers who say it lacked emotion are nutty, just my opinion.
    • 5/5
      What makes this book so interesting for the modern reader is that it was written in 1959. The events were still so fresh and raw in the author's mind that it is a still current event which places the reader so close to the time as opposed to a modern book that looks back in history. A very straightforward telling of concentration camp life from a survivor who holds nothing back. It's awkward to call a book like this "good" since the material is so horrible. However, it is a chilling and stomach-churning must read.
    • 5/5
      One of the best and most thorough of all Bergen-Belsen Aushwitz accounts. A literary piece that is not easily forgotten and a glimpse into horror as never before seen.
    • 4/5
      An amazing story.
      The will to live that comes across is nearly palpable.
      The strength to endure is constant and inspiring.
    • 5/5
      This book was a shocking look into the Nazi's cruel treatment of anyone not considered worthy of the master race. It's not a pleasant read but it is an important one.
    • 5/5
      very powerful, overwhelming, heartwrenching and tearful account of human cruelty. It is so hard to believe that humans can carry out such horrible acts to another human.
      although tragic and very sad it is beautifully written and a must read for all people
    • 5/5
      This book was soo good! It’s very informative, and factual. It’s very interesting, and well written, I didn’t want to put this book down. It puts what happened into perspective, and it felt like these awful things were happening to me. I shed a fear tears, because my heart couldn’t handle the torture, and abuse of people. Very good though.
    • 5/5
      no
    • 5/5
      Suffering reached an all time high in this book. It pushes you past the brink of understanding or imagination. What's the worst form of human suffering you have seen or imagined? What is described in this book could be 10x as worst. God bless the author and all of the victims.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      A heartbreaking book, but one I simply had to read out of respect for the author, and for all those who were lost to the Nazi regime, both in body and mind.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      A devastating first person account by a Transylvanian deportee in Birkenau (the work camp where living was daily torture) and Auschwitz (the death camp). Upon her family's arrival at the camps via cattle car, the author unknowingly sent her sons and parents to the crematorium, and then lived another year until liberation by the Russian Army. Nothing more needs to be said.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      This book was very detailed in describing the horrors of the camp. The writer shows true strength not only through her surviving but through her words and outlook by the end of the book. This book made me question whether I wanted to keep reading further due to the explicit melancholy nature, but I did and I loved it. May peace be with the souls of the innocent ones lost.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      My heart brooke.Every living person should read this book.This kind of evil one though is not possible..

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      This should be required reading for every living person! Heartbreaking

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Olga Lengyel lived through seven months of hell in Auschwitz when she chose to accompany her husband into deportation in Germany from Poland where they lived. Their children and her parents went too, and all except Olga Lengyel were murdered by the Nazis. They weren't Jewish - her husband, Dr. Lengyel, had been accused of crimes of resistance, and because of that her perspective is a little different. She does say that Jews and Gypsies were chosen for the worst treatment and extermination, and that German criminal prisoners and homosexuals were often chosen for guarding and other prison jobs, which they performed with a free rein on brutality.

      Holocaust literature isn't just history, and it isn't just about the Jews. Its about crimes against humanity, specifically the one we now call, 'ethnic cleansing'. Obviously methods vary between Burma, Bosnia, Rwanda, et al, the mind-set is always the same: a set of people are considered ethnically inferior and it is promoted politically that the quality of life, economically and in life-style will be greatly improved once these people are got rid of - meaning killed. Five Chimneys is Olga Lengyel's inside story of living through a period of this and is as relevant today for the lessons we can learn as it was when it was first published 60 years ago.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 1/5
      obvious bull.

      Only jews can come up with this bull.s.
    • 5/5
      La doctora Olga Lengyel escribe sus experiencias en los campos de exterminio de Auschwitz y Birkenau, desde su llegada, hasta la liberación. Sus detalladas descripciones comprenden en su totalidad el libro. Dr. Olga Lengyel wrote his experiences in the death camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau, since his arrival, until liberation. His detailed descriptions fully understand the book.
    • 3/5
      Written shortly after the Holocaust, Olga Lengyel tells the world how she survived the atrocious conditions of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Olga's husband, a well-known Doctor was arrested for alleged anti-Nazi policies. Reassured by German soldiers, Olga, her parents sand two young sons decided to accompany him to Germany. Placed into a crowded train, they quickly realized the error they had made.Olga writes in a detached way, presenting her story in an unemotional and therefore ineffectual fashion. The conditions of the concentration camp, although horrible, do not completely resonate through her writing style. I would have liked to read more about her involvement with the resistance movement and her interactions in the infirmary.
    • 5/5
      This is one woman's first-hand account of life at Birkenau and Auschwitz. While imprisoned there, she made it her goal to survive, explicitly to tell the world about the atrocities perpetuated by the Nazis. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in true accounts of the Holocaust.