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Five Chimneys: A Woman Survivor's True Story of Auschwitz | 
 enlarge | Author: Olga Lengyel
Publisher: Academy Chicago Publications
Category: Book
List Price: £12.50
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Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 9409
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Pages: 231
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.3 x 0.2
ISBN: 0897333764
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.5318092
EAN: 9780897333764
ASIN: 0897333764
Publication Date: August 15, 1995
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Read this and appreciate life in 2001 October 8, 2001
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
This is an amazing book and should be read by all members of your family. I have passed it onto my 17 year old son - it shows courage, determination and most of all a will to live. The horrors of camp life have been explained fully in this book and it seems hard to believe that human beings had to suffer so much. I found it upsetting yet very interesting. It made me appreciate the simple things in life which we all take for granted.
You must read this.... August 9, 2002
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
I was extremely touched by this fantastic, gripping and shocking story. Having read many accounts of life in concentration camps, this particular book captures it all in terrifyingly real and accurate detail. It stands as a testament to true survival and the indomitable spirit of those who were subjected to such persecution at the hands of the Nazi's.
A book that must be read, no matter what your age.
FIVE STARS FOR "FIVE CHIMNEYS" - A MUST READ!! August 31, 1998
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
Olga Lengyel has paid the highest price for the information she gives us all in Five Chimneys. She was there..in Auschwitz - Birkenau. What was her crime? Indeed, what was anyone's crime, to have one's life taken away from them and labelled an Enemy of the Third Reich. Her chilling testimony grips you immediately and holds your attention all the way through. Only one who was a prisoner of the infamous "Death Camps" will truly know what it was like to live the horrors shared in Five Chimneys. Everyone should read this book. Read it slowly, try to picture in your mind the sights Olga describes. Even doing so, one could never imagine the relentless fear of being 'selected' at any time without notice. No intelligent reader will feel unaffected after reading Five Chimneys. In fact one can easily see the clear message given to all of us: "All Life is Precious and none can be replaced."
One of the best Holocaust accounts ever written November 7, 1998
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
This book was first published in English in 1947. It presents life and death in Auschwitz in great detail, and offers an excellent overview of the concentration camp world. The author's own story is gripping and heart-wrenching. The early date, 2 years after WWII ended, ensures that the author's memories of the camp are still lucid and the details very precise. Olga Lengyel studied to be a physician, and her informed analysis of the treatment meted out to inmates make this book special. I view this book as a Holocaust Studies "benchmark" - other accounts often fall short of its quality and level of detail. It is also significant as an account of a woman's experience. Until recently, women's Holocaust experiences were a rather neglected area.
the best ever read June 30, 2002
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
This is a book that will stay with me for life, it is written so you can smell what it must have been like for them all. It is the only book I have ever read that made me sob while reading. I would recommend it to anyone, it is a must read book, we must never forget what these people went through.
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