Summary Of Auschwitz A Doctor's Eyewitness

In Auschwitz, a Doctor’s Eyewitness Account, Doctor Miklos Nyiszli tells his tale on the things he experienced and witnessed at one of the largest concentration camps in Germany. His story encounters the horrors of the camp, from a very unique point of view. In his struggle to survive and tell his tale, Nyiszli volunteered to work alongside a Nazi war criminal who conducted and performed experiments on innocents. Nyiszli was forced to perform horrific “scientific research” projects for his supervisor, the notorious, Doctor Josef Mengele. During his time there, he witnessed the inhumane and unjustified extermination of his own people. Because of his acquired position alongside Mengele, and some luck, he was able to escape alive and testify

It gives us an inside view of the events played out in the concentration camps that might still be a mystery today. If Nyiszli had not have written the book, we might not have ever known how the Nazi operation was played out inside the camps. Throughout the book I had up and down emotions. I feel like the doctor was only trying to survive, and did the best he could throughout it, but I can also understand how many people would feel as if he were just as bad as Mengele for contributing to the human experimentation done in Auschwitz. His motivation for survival, although selfish, was to tell his tale from his point of view, and to hopefully one day be reunited with his family. I think Nyiszli wrote the book to not only inform the people that were unaware of the tragedy, but to get past it himself. I feel like Auschwitz was closure for Nyiszli so he could move past his painful memory. He shows how the war turned normal people into heartless killing machines, that showed no remorse. One example is when the 16 year old girl survived the gas chamber, only to be shot in the back of the neck by the SS in fear that she would tell others about the chambers. I would recommend this book to anyone over the age of 14+ because it is really informative and besides teaching you facts, it also contains so many moral lessons, that you can’t read it without learning something from it. I do think you have to be old enough for it because of the graphic scenes described in it, and it could be a harder read for some because of its