Miklos Nyisztyn, MD, MS, MD & Co.: Specializing in Comprehensive Medical Care

spinoza: Gives an important insight into Dr Mengele and Auschwitz from a forensic doctor. Bruno Bettelheims afterword shows how his thinking has dated since 1960

Australia on Oct 04, 2023

Muhammad Nizam Bin Mohtar: An average written book. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Singapore on Sep 05, 2023

Amazon Customer: Once I started it was hard to put down. It was truly an eye opener. To hear of all the pain that these people had to go through was just excruciating for me since my mother was also running away from the Nazis with her family. The stories she told me was hair raising in what they had to go through. I hope that nothing like this will come again. According to the Bible there is going to be real time of trouble as never was before. I honestly hope that I am not alive to have to go through it.

Canada on Jul 25, 2023

pollyanna: This is a very hard book to review. It is a no holds barred description of the many ways Jews were murdered and then burned or buried in the Auschwitz concentration camp -referred to as KZ in thebook. The doctor made a deal with the devil in order to keep himself alive The devil being the infamous Dr Mengele who was obsessed with twins and how to help Arian women produce more ito increase the Master race faster. He compelled Dr N to do autopsies on countless newly-murdered sets of twins of all ages, from newborns on -mostly children. This work was done in a laboratory with the constant background of the screams of those being taken to the 4 crematoria where they were gassed, their clothes and any valuables taken, teeth and hair removed after death and then they were placed into the flames in large numbers. There were also a regular number shot outside his door each evening. The twins were killed in another manner , by injection. The book recounts all of these and more. The doctor, in his privilged position survived the 4 monthly murder of the Jews used to do the work in the crematoria, and indeed was able to get his wife and daughter away to a safer place. He survived his 8 months...

United Kingdom on Jul 24, 2016

Loyd Eskildson: It is difficult to read about anything connected to Auschwitz - however, it is also mandatory to do so from time to time to remind oneself how terrible man can be to others, as well as to consider how one would avoid following the masses if such times were to reoccur. It would be quite difficult - civilians who rebelled invited death. Sometimes even fellow prisoners called supervisors to report on those trying to escape - they seemingly had given up their will to live and then apparently identified more closely with the SS (Stockholm Syndrome) than to fellow prisoners who still held a strong desire to live.

One also wonders why millions of Jews were so complacent - sitting at home, waiting for their executioners to come (for some, commitment to retaining their earthly possessions had taken possession of them - in fact, discriminatory laws against the Jews were meant to force them to leave Germany and their possessions, and the Holocaust occurred only when most refused to do so), while others joined resistance movements, provided themselves with forged papers, etc. And then there was Dr. Mengele - rigorously observing all aseptic principles during childbirth, then callously...

United States on Aug 17, 2015

Maz: I visited Auschwitz in 2012. Until then, I had read various books that included some narrative accounts but nothing in depth. Like so many,I had read Anne Frank's Diary but this clearly reflected the account of someone in hiding. I had read the natural follow on from this "Night" by Elie Wiesel - which should also be compulsory reading as it almost follows on from where AF leaves off. I have also read the recent excellent publication "Hanns and Rudolf" about the hunt for Rudolph Hoess the designer and Kommandant at Auschwitz.
I felt the need to try and comprehend just how such a place as Aushwitz managed to keep going for so long, how the Nazi's there could actually undertake to do what they did - and the SonnderKommandos who worked under instruction of the Nazi's. This book provides a lot of the answers. Being a doctor, Miklos Nyiszli's account is very factual. One can sense at times just how difficult it is for him to keep his emotions out of the writing and this makes the account even more harrowing at times. Although this is very difficult to read, it is compelling. The style of writing is very easily readable, more so than some other publications. I would stress that this...

United Kingdom on Dec 06, 2013

DRob: This book was written by Dr. Miklos Nyiszli, who was sent to Auschwitz in 1944 when the Nazis invaded Hungary. Nyiszli had the grim misfortune of being selected by Dr. Mengele to perform autopsies on the prisoners upon whom Mengele performed his experiments. As such, Nyiszli assumed the same status as the Sonderkommando, the Jewish prisoners who worked in the crematoriums and who were executed every 4 months.

I read this book after having recently read Night by Elie Wiesel and at first was struck by the dispassionate way in which Nyiszli systematically described his arrival at Auschwitz, his selection by Mengele to assist in his research and his entrance into the world of the Sonderkommando where the prisoners wore nice clothes, ate decent food, and had nice beds on which to sleep-- their reward for performing the most horrible daily task of herding their fellow prisoners into the gas chambers and disposing of the bodies afterwards.

Whereas Wiesel described his admission to the camps with emotion and fear, Nyiszli's main emotion is one of relief-- he has been spared from the horrors that awaited most of the inmates to Auschwitz. He will be able to practice medicine...

United States on Jun 22, 2012