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Cold Crematorium
- Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
- Narrated by: Laurence Dobiesz, Roy McMillan
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
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Summary
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The first English language edition of a lost memoir by an Auschwitz survivor, offering a shocking and deeply moving perspective on life within the camps
József Debreczeni, a prolific Hungarian language journalist and poet, arrived in Auschwitz in 1944; had he been selected to go 'left', his life expectancy would have been approximately forty-five minutes. One of the 'lucky' ones, he was sent to the 'right', which led to twelve horrifying months of incarceration and slave labour in a series of camps, ending in the 'Cold Crematorium' - the so-called hospital of the forced labour camp Dörnhau, where prisoners too weak to work were left to die.
Debreczeni beat the odds and survived. Very soon he committed his experiences to paper in Cold Crematorium, one of the harshest and powerful indictments of Nazism ever written. This haunting memoir, rendered in the precise and unsentimental prose of an accomplished journalist, compels the reader to imagine human beings in circumstances impossible to comprehend intellectually.
First published in Hungarian in 1950, it was never translated due to the rise of McCarthyism, Cold War hostilities and antisemitism. More than 70 years later, this important eyewitness account that was nearly lost to time will be available in 15 languages, finally taking its rightful place among the great works of Holocaust literature.
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- Janet Jones
- 11-10-24
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moving, informative, interesting and heart-wrenching story from start to finish. The narrator was very good.
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- Stephanie M. Crosby
- 10-09-24
The raw expression of the horror is palpable.
The honest and brutally truthful mdescription of an event in history that must NEVER be forgotten is a must-read account of the holocaust
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- PaulC6230
- 19-01-24
Harrowing Account
This was another harrowing account of one man’s journey into Auschwitz and describes day to day living under dreadful conditions put on them by the Nazis.
This account is just like others I have listened too or read but will little bits of insights like each account brings.
Stories like this should never fade away and should always be told so we never forget and educate others and the next generation of what happened.
The narration was decent enough to hold my attention for the 2 shifts I had listening to this audiobook.
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- Issy Isaacs
- 26-02-24
A very hard listen
A very hard listen but listen you must. An amazing story from an amazing human being. You understand why the Jewish race will never be persecuted again. How humans survive under these conditions is beyond believe it can never happen again
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