Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter 1. Just for Work
Chapter 2. Work – German Style
Chapter 3. An Exalted Visit
Chapter 4. An Even More Exalted Visit
Chapter 5. The Ceremonial
Chapter 6. A More or Less Normal Evening
Chapter 7. Two Thousand Metres of Track
Chapter 8. To Die – or to Perish?
Chapter 9. ‘In the Name of Reichsführer SS’
Chapter 10. Danger: Live Ammunition!
Chapter 11. Two against a Regiment
Chapter 12. Death Lives on the Other Side
Chapter 13. ‘Did You See It with Your Own Eyes?’
Chapter 14. ‘But What about the Postcards?’
Chapter 15. There are Limits to Human Imagination

Appendix I: Photographs and Documents
Appendix II: Auschwitz Protocol (Vrba-Wetzler Report)

About the Author

Alfréd Wetzler (1918–1988) was one of the two inmates of Auschwitz who managed to escape from the death camp using an ingenious scheme to provide the first documentary evidence of the operations at Auschwitz. Once he returned to Slovakia, he joined the national partisan movement under the name of Jozef Lanik. The original book (written in Slovakian) was published under this pseudonym.

Reviews

“…a compelling read; a real thriller. It provides very vivid descriptions of daily life in the camp and recounts in details the miraculous escape and the escapees’ subsequent struggle to convince the unbelieving world of the happenings in Auschwitz-Birkenau.” • British Czech and Slovak Review “The writing style is direct, with vivid descriptions of harrowing experiences and soul-searching conversations. In these manners, it is akin to Elie Wiesel’s Night”. • Jewish Culture and History