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Cold crematorium : reporting from the land of Auschwitz / József Debreczeni ; translated from the Hungarian by Paul Olchváry ; foreword by Jonathan Freedland.

Debreczeni, József, 1905-1978 (author.). Olchváry, Paul, (translator.). Freedland, Jonathan, 1967- (writer of foreword.).

Summary:

"The first English language edition of a lost memoir by an Auschwitz survivor, offering a shocking and deeply moving perspective on life within the camps. When József Debreczeni, a prolific Hungarian-language journalist and poet, arrived in Auschwitz in 1944, his life expectancy was forty-five minutes. This was how long it took for the half-dead prisoners to be sorted into groups, stripped, and sent to the gas chambers. He beat the odds and survived the "selection," which led to twelve horrifying months of incarceration and slave labor in a series of camps, ending in the "Cold Crematorium"--the so-called hospital of the forced labor camp Dörnhau, where prisoners too weak to work awaited execution. But as Soviet and Allied troops closed in on the camps, local Nazi commanders-anxious about the possible consequences of outright murder--decided to leave the remaining prisoners to die. Debreczeni survived the liberation of Auschwitz and immediately recorded his experiences in Cold Crematorium, one of the harshest, most merciless indictments of Nazism ever written." --Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781250290533
  • ISBN: 1250290538
  • Physical Description: 244 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First U.S. edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2023.

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Text in English, translated from the Hungarian.

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Subject: Debreczeni, József, 1905-1978.
Auschwitz (Concentration camp) > Biography.
Dörnhau (Concentration camp) > Biography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Serbia > Personal narratives.
World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, German.
Jews, Hungarian > Serbia > Vojvodina > Biography.
Vojvodina (Serbia) > Biography.
Genre: Autobiographies.
Personal narratives.

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