Five Chimneys: A Woman Survivor's True Story of Auschwitz

click here for more details, find new or used items	Olga Lengyel Our price £7.09 (£6.86) New from £3.04 Used from £3.49 Pages: 231 (Paperback) ISBN: 0897333764 Pub: Academy Chicago Publications Pub date: 1995-08-15 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 23510

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A True Story of Courage,Terror, and Inhuman Behaviour (0/0 people found this helpful)

Olga Lengyel went through hell and to survive and write such a clear and vivd account is fantastic. The suffering and torture that people went through and in the most disgusting of conditions must not be allowed to happen again.

Her book is a very vivd account and what all readers must do is not to allow a holocaust to repeat itself again. Millions of people suffered and died. We must all make sure that what happend is not forgotten and does not every happen again. That way they will not have suffered and died for nothing. You must read this book.

the true story of holocaust survival (0/0 people found this helpful)

having read this book some 15 to 20 years ago, i was very deeply moved by some of the pieces in the book, the story of olga sending her children to one side of the line at the railway staion only to find later that she had actually sent them to the gas chamber indeed almost brought me to tears then!
also the account of the amount of people compared to the cattle that were herded in to the cattle trucks was very destressing

i could almost tell the story of the top of my head but thats up to other people to find out them selves
Also having watched the BBC2 documentery the World at war about the holocaust,( which only scratched the surface compared to this book )i cannot rate this book any higher than the 5 stars this site allows
BUY IT, READ IT, BUT NEVER FORGET IT!

"The only way out is up the chimney" (1/1 people found this helpful)

Another one of those books that 'should' be read, why? because someone wanted to survive simply to tell their tale. A story that the world wasn't meant to know. Apart from that it makes for compulsive reading and will make your present woes seem fairly insignificant.

moving (4/5 people found this helpful)

I read this book within 3 days i couldnt put it down, it was very moving and gives the reader a great insight in to life as a jew in world war 2 germany i highly recomend this book, with a box of tissues

Excellent reading but sanitised (0/2 people found this helpful)

I first read this book when I was a young man in the 1950`s and the account has stayed with me up until the present. It is a must read for every-one, although it appears to have been censored and sanitised. During my term in H.M. Forces I was able to visit some of these horrific sites of man`s inhumanity and those images as well have stayed with me.

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