This work offers a shattering account of an Auschwitz prisoner who worked for more than two years in the gassing installations and crematoria and lived to tell about it.
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A very detailed description of day-to-day life, if we can call it that, in Hell's inmost circle...jammed with infernal information too terrible to be taken all at once.--Terrence Des Pres
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Filip MYller was born in Czechoslovakia in 1922, was deported to Auschwitz in 1942, was liberated in 1945, and afterward lived in Western Europe.
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Filip Muller was a memebr of the Sonderkommado at Auschwitz-Birkenau, responsible for the disposal of the corpses after death by gassing. Having first seen "Shoah" (the epic Claude Lanzmann Documentary)where Filip Muller explains his experiences at Auschwitz-Birkenau (admittedly edited in length), it was most interesting to read his book to obtain the true picture of his suffering.
Having actually been to Auschwitz-Birkenau and read extesnively around the subject, it is still a deeply moving & disturbing when you read what actually happened there. As a third person, it is very interesting to read an account like this, as it actually puts you very vividly into that envrionment.
This book is thoroughly recommended - it captures all that is so very wrong in the human spirit - hatred, bigotry, prejudice - and yet all that is so very right in the human spirit - courage, determination & an extraordinary will to survive & bear witness to humanity's greatest crime.
Having actually been to Auschwitz-Birkenau and read extesnively around the subject, it is still a deeply moving & disturbing when you read what actually happened there. As a third person, it is very interesting to read an account like this, as it actually puts you very vividly into that envrionment.
This book is thoroughly recommended - it captures all that is so very wrong in the human spirit - hatred, bigotry, prejudice - and yet all that is so very right in the human spirit - courage, determination & an extraordinary will to survive & bear witness to humanity's greatest crime.
60 of 62 people found the following review helpful
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I have read a great amount of accounts by holocaust survivers. They all are remarkable, and all add somthing to the history we should never forget.
This book deals in considerable depth with the practicalities of the mass murders, the gas chambers and crematoria. As so few of the Sonderkommando survived to bear witness, Mullers account bears added importance.
One of the most remarkable things about this book is the simple matter-of-fact way in which Muller relates his account. Almost as if he were talking about some 9 to 5 factory job. What really comes across is how the Nazis dehumanised those in their charge to perform these tasks, but still those like Muller somehow survived and came out the other side.
This book deals in considerable depth with the practicalities of the mass murders, the gas chambers and crematoria. As so few of the Sonderkommando survived to bear witness, Mullers account bears added importance.
One of the most remarkable things about this book is the simple matter-of-fact way in which Muller relates his account. Almost as if he were talking about some 9 to 5 factory job. What really comes across is how the Nazis dehumanised those in their charge to perform these tasks, but still those like Muller somehow survived and came out the other side.
36 of 37 people found the following review helpful
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If this book were submitted as a work of fiction, everyone would think it was a ridiculous, far fetched plot.
The fact that it is an account of what actually happened in the Concentration camps during WW2, makes it the most uncomfortable, emotional, sickening but compelling book you will probably ever read.
I am 43 years old, and am not generally known for showing my emotions, but there were several points during this book where I struggled to hold back tears reading about the plight of these poor people (and their children) under the rule of the Nazis and the ruthless SS.
It beggars belief that a person could do such a thing to another living person, regardless of whether they were following orders or not. I hope as many people as possible read this book, to ensure that an unspeakable attrocity such as this never happens again.
The fact that it is an account of what actually happened in the Concentration camps during WW2, makes it the most uncomfortable, emotional, sickening but compelling book you will probably ever read.
I am 43 years old, and am not generally known for showing my emotions, but there were several points during this book where I struggled to hold back tears reading about the plight of these poor people (and their children) under the rule of the Nazis and the ruthless SS.
It beggars belief that a person could do such a thing to another living person, regardless of whether they were following orders or not. I hope as many people as possible read this book, to ensure that an unspeakable attrocity such as this never happens again.
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NEVER FORGET
Words do not do this book justice..... Filip Muller's eyewitness account of the atrocities committed at Auschwitz should never be forgotten.
Published 2 months ago by Mr. L. J. Clayton
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I MET FILIP MULER - SHOCKING THOUGHT PROVOKING TRAGIC
I am fortunate enough to have met Filip Muller. What this man lived through has never left him & he is still living with his experiences now. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Deborah Anderson
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Holocaust Eyewitness
Great book by Fillip Muller, a Sonderkommando member in Auschwitz Birkenau Concentration Camp. Eyewitness account of the three years spent in disposing bodies, in gas chambers and... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Mac 333
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Good factual book.
Never read anything from an insiders point of view of these camps before,good reading to go alongside other general accounts of the camps.
Published 5 months ago by DAVE HAYTER
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Brilliant Book
If your interested in Auschwitz and the Holocaust, this is a great read. So far I have read:
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Published 6 months ago by Andygander
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Harrowing detailed Auschwitz memoir by a SONDERKOMMANDO
This is a harrowing intelligent articulate detailed testimony (180 pages) by Filip Muller a Jewish prisoner who was forced to work as a member of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando... Read more
Published 8 months ago by King Brosby
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Detached view of the worst part of the holocaust
This book is coldly written, there is no sentiment, the protagonist is watching things from the outside, he can't feel anything. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Gigidoll
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a different side to life in auschwitz.
i have just finished reading the book "eyewitnes auschwitz;three years in the gas chamber." i have read many,many books on auschwitz and of the appoiling conditions and treatments... Read more
Published 9 months ago by w1nstone
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Fantastic Book
The life of the sonderkommando is vividly, and somewhat uncomfortably at times, brought to life in this brutal, hard hitting, honest account from the biggest site of mass murder in... Read more
Published 15 months ago by prohmy
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Worth the time
I picked up this book after being moved by Filip's narration in Shoah, the film. He seemed to convey his experience both objectively yet with understated emotion. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Simon F. Johnson
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