from the moment I got to Auschwitz I was completely detached.
But while she re.
Writing twenty years after her liberation, she recreates the events of a dark past which, in her own words, would have driven her mad had she tried to relive it sooner.
I disconnected my heart and intellect in an act of self-defense, despair, and hopelessness.`` With these words Sara Nomberg-Przytyk begins this painful and compelling account of her experiences while imprisoned for two years in the infamous death camp.
from the moment I got to Auschwitz I was completely detached