Last stop Auschwitz : my story of survival from within the camp

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Label

Last stop Auschwitz : my story of survival from within the camp

Title remainder

my story of survival from within the camp

Statement of responsibility

Eddy de Wind ; translated from the Dutch by David Colmer ; [afterword by John Boyne]

Creator

• Wind, E. de

Contributor

• Colmer, David, 1960-
• Boyne, John, 1971-
• Wind, E. de

Author

• Wind, E. de

Translator

• Colmer, David, 1960-

Subject

• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
• Personal narratives
• Wind, E. de
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Dutch
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German
• Auschwitz (Concentration camp)

Genre

• Personal narratives, Dutch

Language

• eng
• dut
• eng

Summary

An Auschwitz prisoner's remarkable account of suffering and survival, widely thought to be the only complete book written inside the camp itself. With an Afterword by John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. 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 Eddy, this meant negotiating with the volatile guards in the medical barracks. For Friedel, it meant avoiding the Nazis' barbaric medical experiments. 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. Finding a notebook and pencil, he began to write with furious energy about his experiences. Last Stop Auschwitz is an extraordinary account of life as a prisoner, a near real-time record of the daily struggle to survive but also of the flickering moments of joy Eddy and Friedel found in each other - passing notes through the fence, sometimes stealing a brief embrace. Documenting the best and the worst of humanity, it is a unique and timeless story that reminds us of what we as humans are capable of, but that there is hope, even in Hell. Thought to be the only complete book written within Auschwitz itself, it will linger with you long after the final page has been turned

Member of

• Eindstation Auschwitz

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

UKMGB

Dewey number

940.5318

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits

Index

no index present

Language note

Translated from the Dutch

Literary form

non fiction

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