Book description
When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the
entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Hungarian Jew and a medical
doctor, Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared from death for a grimmer fate:
to perform "scientific research" on his fellow inmates under
the supervision of the infamous "Angel of Death": Dr. Josef
Mengele. Nyiszli was named Mengele's personal research pathologist.
Miraculously, he survived to give this terrifying and sobering account
of the terror of Auschwitz.
This new Penguin Modern Classics edition contains an introduction by
Richard Evans.
Mikl s Nyiszli (1901-1956) was a Jewish prisoner at the Auschwitz
concentration camp. Nyiszli, his wife and young daughter were
transported to Auschwitz in May 1944. After he had worked for a short
while as a labourer at the I. G. Farben factory at Auschwitz-Monowitz,
his medical qualifications were discovered by the SS and he was sent to
the extermination camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he worked as a
pathologist under the supervision of the notorious camp doctor Joseph
Mengele. Nyiszli survived the camp along with his daughter and returned
to his home, now part of Romania, where he died in 1956.
