I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz

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Summary: perl
Review: An amazing and horrific book. I could not put it down nor could I continue reading. Dr. Perl describes the her holocaust experience in medical detail and journalistic clarity and style. A must read... if you are strong enough.

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Summary: Explicit in detail and horror
Review: Dr. Perl wrote skillfully and with clarity of the horrors of Nazi concentration camps. Auschwitz was pergatory and Bergen Belsen was hell. She told it just as it was with very little digression into unrelated subject matter. As Matt stated in his review...she writes as a surgeon, always cutting to the core of the story she had to relate. I must agree that this is one of the very finest books I've read by a survivor, albeit there are a great many. The many very talented and wonderful women that fought to live and failed in their quest will break your heart. Dr. Perl tells of the spirits of these women and the great loss to the world of the multitudes of talented and wonderful people put to death by these butchers. The book was reprinted in 1997 by Ayer Company Publishers, Inc. in North Stratford, NH, and I cannot understand why it is so difficult to find today. My most generous thanks to those who supplied me a copy of this marvelous testimony for my library.

Read dear Lucille Eichengreen's book, FROM ASHES TO LIFE. It too is a valuable historical testimony. Then get ECHOES FROM AUSCHWITZ by wonderful Eva Mozes Kor, which is the story of Eva and Miriam Mozes, two of Mengele's twins. Excellent!

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Summary: Explicit in detail and horror
Review: Dr. Perl wrote skillfully and with clarity of the horrors of Nazi concentration camps. Auschwitz was pergatory and Bergen Belsen was hell. She told it just as it was with very little digression into unrelated subject matter. As Matt stated in his review...she writes as a surgeon, always cutting to the core of the story she had to relate. I must agree that this is one of the very finest books I've read by a survivor, albeit there are a great many. The many very talented and wonderful women that fought to live and failed in their quest will break your heart. Dr. Perl tells of the spirits of these women and the great loss to the world of the multitudes of talented and wonderful people put to death by these butchers. The book was reprinted in 1997 by Ayer Company Publishers, Inc. in North Stratford, NH, and I cannot understand why it is so difficult to find today. My most generous thanks to those who supplied me a copy of this marvelous testimony for my library.

Read dear Lucille Eichengreen's book, FROM ASHES TO LIFE. It too is a valuable historical testimony. Then get ECHOES FROM AUSCHWITZ by wonderful Eva Mozes Kor, which is the story of Eva and Miriam Mozes, two of Mengele's twins. Excellent!

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Summary: Moving and touching...
Review: Simple narration of events in Auschwitz. No fancy writting, 20 page introductions or justifications, just plain relation of the facts. Horrors of the concentration camp are shown as they were seen at that particular moment. Feelings are translated directly on to paper and a reader has a chance to feel and taste the pain and suffering that author has experienced and seen. In my opinion this is one of the best books written about Holocaust but too bad that is out of print. Too many authors in the past were trying to use pen as a sword to crusade agains Nazis. As good as it sounds it usually dimishes the real value of the tale. Dr. Perl did an excellent job in separating her feelings from the facts. Her idea behind the book was to relate the events of everyday life in the camp and let the reader be the judge of the Nazi killing machine. I read most of the books that relate to the events in Auschwitz but this one is so far the most accurate.

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Summary: why is this book "out of print"??
Review: This true story MUST be told and read by everyone! What horrors took place and how Dr. Perl was involved and what she saw, unbelieveably moving. I cried. If you can not find or afford to buy this book...get the DVD movie "Out of the Ashes" which does a good job of retelling the story.