Auschwitz by Sara Nomberg

From the instant I got to Auschwitz I was completely detached. Idisconnected my heart and intellect in an proceed of self-defense, despair, and hopelessness." With these phrases Sara Nomberg-Przytyk begins this sore and convincing account of her experiences while imprisoned for two years in the infamous death camp. Writing twenty years after her liberation, she recreates the events of a dark past which, in her own phrases, would have propelled her angry had she endeavoured to relive it sooner. But while she notes unimaginable atrocities, she also richly describes the human compassion that obstinately survived regardless of the ...