A startling, unflinching account of the terror of Auschwitz, new to Penguin Modern Classics
When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A 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.