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A rich chronicle of daily life in the Birkenau Hospital Camp,

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.

Rarely does one find survivors’ accounts that provide such precise descriptions

Rarely does one find survivors’ accounts that provide such precise descriptions of the daily terror and routine reality of life in the Birkenau Hospital Camp.

This is a deeply personal story of humanity and civility in the face of the greatest industrial mass murder the world has ever seen.