Just finished this memoir and it is equally horrifying as it is fascinating. Page one puts you right in the train cart en route to Auschwitz while the last page describes Józsefs liberation. The author was a journalist in the “world beyond the barbed wire” as he describes it and his use of language to describe his experiences within several Nazi death camps is truly remarkable.
The memoir was actually written 5 years after his liberation, however due to several setbacks such as the book painting the communist Russians in a positive light during the Cold War, the book never made it to the western world. Now translated from Hungarian to English, the book is available to read.
I highly recommend this book for anyone who is interested in this topic and I truly think it should be recommended reading for holocaust education in schools.
by jwd–