Last stop Auschwitz : my story of survival from within the camp
Wind, E. de2020
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Eddy de Wind, a Dutch doctor and psychiatrist, was shipped to Auschwitz with his wife Friedel, whom he had met and married at the Westerbork labour camp in the Netherlands. At Auschwitz, they made it through the brutal selection process and were put to work. Each day, each hour became a battle for survival. For Friedel, it meant avoiding the Nazis' barbaric medical experiments. Despite such daily stresses, love prevailed. Passing notes through the fence, sometimes stealing a brief embrace, Friedel and Eddy clung to life. As the end of the war approached and the Russian Army drew closer, the last Nazis fled, taking many prisoners with them, including Friedel. Eddy hid under a pile of old clothes and stayed behind. This book is an extraordinary account of life as a prisoner, a near real-time record of the daily struggle to survive.
Main title:
Last stop Auschwitz : my story of survival from within the camp / Eddy de Wind ; translated from the Dutch by David Colmer.
Author:
Wind, E. deColmer, David, 1960-, translator
Imprint:
London : Doubleday, 2020.
Collation:
vii, 260 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Notes:
Illustrations on lining papers.Translated from the Dutch.Includes bibliographical references.Translation of: Eindstation Auschwitz. 1946
ISBN:
9780857526830 (hbk)
Dewey class:
940.531853862940.5318940.5940.531940.531853
LC class:
D804.G4
Local class:
940.5
Language:
EnglishDutch
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BRN:
2592657