Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers

by Filip Müller

Overview

Filip Müller came to Auschwitz with one of the earliest transports from Slovakia in April 1942 and began working in the gassing installations and crematoria in May. He was still alive when the gassings ceased in November 1944. He saw millions come and disappear; by sheer luck he survived. Müller is neither a historian nor a psychologist; he is a source—one of the few prisoners who saw the Jewish people die and lived to tell about it. Eyewitness Auschwitz is one of the key documents of the Holocaust.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781538143308
Publisher:	Dee, Ivan R. Publisher
Publication date:	08/24/1999
Series:	Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	911 KB

About the Author

Filip Müller was born in Czechoslovakia in 1922, was deported to Auschwitz in 1942, was liberated in 1945, and afterward lived in Western Europe.

Table of Contents

	Foreword	ix
1	No return	1
2	Into the crematorium	11
3	The new death factories	49
4	The tragedy of the Family Camp	90
5	The inferno	120
Appendix	Plans of Auschwitz	173
	Glossary	178

What People are Saying About This

Terrence Des Pres

A very detailed description of day-to-day life, if we can call it that, in Hell’s inmost circle...jammed with infernal information too terrible to be taken all at once.

Editorial Reviews

Riveting...it is a tale of unprecedented, incomparable horror. Profoundly, intensely painful; but it is essential reading.

Jewish Press Features

Müller came to Auschwitz with one of the earliest transports from Slovakia in April 1942, and was forced to work in the gassing installations and crematoria. He was still alive when the gassings ceased in November 1944. He is one of the few prisoners who lived to tell of the horrors of Auschwitz, and his account is one of the key documents of the Holocaust. Includes b&w maps and a glossary. Lacks a subject index. First published in 1979. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

A very detailed description of day-to-day life, if we can call it that, in Hell’s inmost circle...Having read other books of this kind, I had expected to read this one straight through. But no, Eyewitness Auschwitz is jammed with infernal information too terrible to be taken all at once.

New Republic - Terrence Des Pres

A shattering, centrally important testimony.

Yehuda Bauer

Riveting...it is a tale of unprecedented, incomparable horror. Profoundly, intensely painful; but it is essential reading.

Jewish Press

A shattering, centrally important testimony.

A very detailed description of day-to-day life, if we can call it that, in Hell's inmost circle...Having read other books of this kind, I had expected to read this one straight through. But no, Eyewitness Auschwitz is jammed with infernal information too terrible to be taken all at once.

Riveting...it is a tale of unprecedented, incomparable horror. Profoundly, intensely painful; but it is essential reading.

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