The Prisoner's Life Inside Auschwitz

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This book was published for the 60th commemoration of the freedom of Auschwitz an overwhelming and shocking record of the most notorious concentration camp the world has ever known. Rees began writing this book in order to reveal the full, true story of the prisoner's life inside Auschwitz that many do not know. The novel starts off with the motivation behind why the death camps were framed which is around 1940 and finishes in mid-1960’s with liberation and retaliation. For the most part, it is about the everyday lives of the detainees in the concentration camp with their hardships amid the time period and associates this experience to today to shape a solid impact and significance on the reader. This is an exceptionally important source loaded

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