Smoke over Birkenau: The Horrible Truth about Auschwitz
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Smoke over Birkenau: The Horrible Truth about Auschwitz
9.99 €
The story of a prisoner who was a witness for the prosecution at the Nuremberg trials.
Unlike the millions who perished, the author of this book miraculously survived the hell of the Nazi concentration camps and served as a witness for the prosecution at the Nuremberg trials that condemned the leaders of the Third Reich. This is a chilling account of the horrors of concentration camps, Nazi atrocities and the worst crimes of Nazism. It is an undeniable eyewitness account, the truthfulness of which makes one shudder. The outstanding Polish journalist and writer Severina Szmaglewska (1916-1992) for three whole years was a prisoner of the Auschwitz branch - Birkenau concentration camp (Auschwitz II), where the Nazis killed up to 1.5 million people. Birkenau became the largest Nazi extermination camp and one of the main symbols of the tragedy of the Holocaust. In the concentration camp, the author worked, among other things, near the railroad tracks that led to the crematoria. During the Death March in 1945 she managed to escape. Severina Szmaglewska's experiences in Birkenau served as material for a book written immediately after the war and translated into many languages. "Above the lines of barbed wire, which quietly ringing incessantly reminds of death, the fire from the crematorium pipes soars into the sky with columns of scarlet flame and flickers in the darkness like a torch lit from human bodies...".
Unlike the millions who perished, the author of this book miraculously survived the hell of the Nazi concentration camps and served as a witness for the prosecution at the Nuremberg trials that condemned the leaders of the Third Reich. This is a chilling account of the horrors of concentration camps, Nazi atrocities and the worst crimes of Nazism. It is an undeniable eyewitness account, the truthfulness of which makes one shudder. The outstanding Polish journalist and writer Severina Szmaglewska (1916-1992) for three whole years was a prisoner of the Auschwitz branch - Birkenau concentration camp (Auschwitz II), where the Nazis killed up to 1.5 million people. Birkenau became the largest Nazi extermination camp and one of the main symbols of the tragedy of the Holocaust. In the concentration camp, the author worked, among other things, near the railroad tracks that led to the crematoria. During the Death March in 1945 she managed to escape. Severina Szmaglewska's experiences in Birkenau served as material for a book written immediately after the war and translated into many languages. "Above the lines of barbed wire, which quietly ringing incessantly reminds of death, the fire from the crematorium pipes soars into the sky with columns of scarlet flame and flickers in the darkness like a torch lit from human bodies...".
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series The Holocaust. Eyewitness testimonies