Five Chimneys: A Woman's True Story of Auschwitz [ FIVE CHIMNEYS: A WOMAN'S TRUE STORY OF AUSCHWITZ BY Lengyel, Olga ( Author ) Aug-30-2005 Paperback – August 30, 2005

Essential readingI began by reading "Night" by Elie Wiesel when my son's high school English class was assigned the 90 page book; an excellent and disturbing narrative as well. Then I became interested in a female Auschwitz survivor's experiences. "Five Chimneys" is the book if you too wish to know how it was for women and children in the Nazi-created hell on Earth of concentration camps. Please read Olga Lengyel's incredibly detailed, unflinching account. I warn that it is not for the faint-hearted or squeamish. More than once I put the book down and literally waved away the horrendous images formed in my mind, and that continued right to the final pages. I continued reading out of respect for the author and for each unfortunate individual, no matter their race, religion, nationality, age, and gender, who were victimized by their Nazi SS captors. I also hoped, vainly, to understand; to find a glimmer of pardon for the crimes so plainly described. How, I ask, can human beings subject other humans to such merciless cruelty, and in every imaginable way?To quote the author in the final chapter, "God rest their poor souls! No hell anyone could conceive could equal what they endured."