
Five Chimneys is a harrowing first-person account of Olga Lengyel's survival in Auschwitz and Birkenau during the Holocaust. Olga, along with her family, voluntarily accompanies her husband to Germany, only to end up in the nightmarish conditions of the concentration camps. The book details her experiences in a detached yet brutally honest manner, shedding light on the atrocities faced by the prisoners. Despite the lack of emotional narration, the story effectively conveys the horrors of Auschwitz through Olga's calm and matter-of-fact writing style.
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Content warnings include graphic violence, descriptions of torture and murder, loss of family members, and intense emotional trauma associated with the Holocaust.
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Olga Lengyel tells, frankly and without compromise, one of the most horrifying stories of all time. This true, documented chronicle is the intimate, day-to-day record of a beautiful woman who survived the nightmare of Auschwitz and Birchenau. This book is a necessary reminder of one of the ugliest chapters in the history of human civilization. It was a shocking experience. It is a shocking book.
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