A rich chronicle of daily life in the Birkenau Hospital Camp, the Twins’ Barrack, the Hospital Administration Block, and the Hospital Camp Guard Shack told in the first person. 

Auschwitz Birkenau is a place of brutality and numbing normalcy of unending death, coupled with minute acts of compassion and kindness that allows Kalman and Leopold to continue to live for another hour, a day, a week.