Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account | 3.2.2011 Edition

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New York Times Bestseller: A harrowing account by a prisoner who became a firsthand witness to—and participant in—the horrors of the Nazi camp. 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, which is accompanied by a foreword by Bruno Bettelheim. “This is the best brief account of the Auschwitz experience available.” —The New York Review of Books