from the moment I got to Auschwitz I was completely detached.
Subsequent interviews revealed the history of the manuscript, the author\'s background, and brought the journal into perspective..
Not knowing the fate of the journal\'s author, Pfefferkorn spent two years searching and finally located Nomberg-przytyk in Canada.
The original Polish manuscript was discovered by Eli Pfefferkorn in 1980 in the Yad Vashem Archive in Jerusalem.
Nomberg-Przytyk\'s job as an attendant in Mengle\'s hospital allowed her to observe this Angel of Death firsthand and to provide us with the most complete description to date of his monstrous activities.
Josef Mengele, whose medical experiments resulted in the slaughter of nearly half a million Jews.
from her portraits of camp personalities, an extraordinary and horrifying profile emerges of Dr.
This book offers a chilling view of the human drama that existed in Auschwitz.
In this world unmitigated cruelty coexisted with nobility, rapacity with self-sacrifice, indifference with selfless compassion.
With consummate understatement Nomberg-przytyk describes the behavior of concentration camp inmates as she relentlessly and pitilessly examines her own motives and feelings.
Commemorative in spirit and artistic in form, Auschwitz convincingly portrays the paradoxes of human nature in extreme circumstances.
But while she records unimaginable atrocities, she also richly describes the human compassion that stubbornly survived despite the backdrop of camp depersonalization and imminent extermination.
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.
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.
I disconnected my heart and intellect in an act of self-defense, despair, and hopelessness.
from the moment I got to Auschwitz I was completely detached
