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.Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chamber
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by: Filip Muller

August 24, 1999
Truly the worst holocaust testimony ever written.So many mistakes throughout the whole text.Two examples of which were when Mr Muller mentions the camp orchestra in Birkenau,there was none.He also quotes that Kramer was in Birkenau and had came from Auschwitz 2.Both are one and the same place But important errors like these were repeated in every chapter and the worry for me is that Holocaust deniers may pick up on these simple blunders.Mr Mullers over use of adjectives and repetition of statements at times resulted in the book bordering on being boring.It read more like a students written essay who wasnt fully informed ,rather than an actual Holocaust survivors memoirs.Ive read many more imformative Holocaust testimonies and even Mr Muller ... Read More:
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.Alicia: My Story
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by: Alicia Appleman-Jurman

1990-01
I received this book only a day or so after ordering it here on Amazon, and began it that very evening.....
I have found it hard to put down, and thoroughly recommend it, I shall finish it by tomorrow, and then my daughter is going to read it. She is learning all about Hitler and world war2 for G.C.S.E's, but not enough is taught regarding the Jews and what happened. This book should be read by all children, to help them realise how lucky they are not to have to experience such horror, and to feel and empathise for what really happened, and to stop it ever happening again. This is an amazing, inspirational and terribly moving insight into a young Jewish girls experience of living through World war 2 in Poland. I cried, and also am filled ... Read More:
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.Five Chimneys: A Woman Survivor's True Story of Auschwitz
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by: Olga Lengyel

August 15, 1995
Buy this book is all I can say, I have read many books on the holocaust, and life within the concentration camps, and 'Five Chimneys' is one well worth reading......... it will stay with you forever, I also highly recommend 'Is this a man' by Primo Levi. God Bless all the survivors, and all those who died such tragic deaths, under such unbelievable, hellish circumstances. It certainly puts ones life into perspective!
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.A Bag of Marbles
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by: Joseph Joffo

August 11, 2001
The book is full of adventure and childhood wit. It is written from a child's point of view and deightfully explores childhood innocence in a time of destruction and horror. It is about the tale of two jewish brothers whose strength and determination is accuentated as they try to escape from the germans. Their relationship is tested as they try to survive in extremely difficult conditions.
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.Survival in Auschwitz
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by: Primo Levi

February 19, 2000
A great work, but 'Survival in Auschwitz' is just the American name for 'If This Is A Man', which is published in Britain together with 'The Truce'. Amazon has it, it's better value as well as a better title.
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.Survivors: True Stories of Children in the Holocaust
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by: Allan Zullo, Mara Bovsun

2005-03
A great work, but 'Survival in Auschwitz' is just the American name for 'If This Is A Man', which is published in Britain together with 'The Truce'. Amazon has it, it's better value as well as a better title.
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.Man's Search for Meaning
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by: Viktor Frankl

1997-12
I was shocked by the small size when I received this book from Amazon. I had heard so much about the book, and expected a great deal from it. Compared to most books in the self-help section, this book is tiny, but Frenkl conveys his story clearly and succinctly in 150 pages.

Assuming that his readers will have read or heard the more gruesome details of the concentration camp, Frenkl describes the daily reality of a prisoner's experience. With poignant moments scattered throughout the first (autobiographic) part of the book, he describes how people survived, supported others and died in that world. As a psychologist, he also tells the reader how and why he and others made some of their choices during that time. On its own this is a gripping read. ... Read More:
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.The Himmler Brothers: A German Family History
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by: Katrin Himmler

June 20, 2008
Katrin Himmler has had the unfortunate experience of having Adolf Hitler's second in command, Heinrich Himmler as her Great Uncle. Throughout her life, her family have down-played the role of her own grandfather, Himmler's brother Ernst, who she was told, "went along with things" and was a very minor Nazi. However, over the last few years she has conducted an in-depth investigation into her family history, and the result is this excellent book.

Katrin Himmler begins by describing the childhood and youth of the three Himmler brothers, and the home life they had with their parents. They were by any account a fine family, the parents strict, but involved in every aspect of their sons' lives, and the three boys being in turn respectful of their parents and ... Read More:
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.Mengele: The Complete Story
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by: Gerald L. Posner, Michael Berenbaum, John Ware

2000-10
I bought this book because I wanted to find out more about Mengele's wartime activities and the efforts to locate him after the war. This book succeeds perfectly in the latter but fails in the former. We are given a lightening fast summary of Mengele's wartime activies, with very little examples or witness statements or indeed much in the way of exploration of the man's psyche. Then we have a beautifully researched and well-written account of his every movement postwar. This book feels unbalanced. For this reason alone only 3 stars. Surely developing the character of Mengele the Auschwitz doctor would only have strengthened our interest in the hunt for Mengele the war criminal fugitive?
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.The Sergeant in the Snow
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by: Mario Rigoni Stern

September 30, 1998
I have read a lot of war and combat novels and stories; I am a war buff, and that's my hobby. I also earned a degree in literary studies, and honestly I don't know why one of the reviews is so negative--unless the book has been badly translated. I haven't read the English edition so I can't say. In Italy this is considered one of the classics of W.W.II literature, and it's also masterfully written. It's true, Rigoni Stern does not give you many details about places and dates, but that's a literary choice: this is a novel. Do you want dates and places? Buy a history book. However, this is a powerful, compact book, which makes you feel the biting cold and the terrifying vastness of Russia, and makes you feel sorry for the Alpini who, badly equipped, were sent there to die. The hostility ... Read More:
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