Five Chimneys: A Woman Survivor's True Story of Auschwitz - Olga Lengyel

Five Chimneys by Olga Lengyel is a woman survivor's true story of Auschwitz. I knew this wasn't going to be the easiest read, but by the end of the 1st chapter I already had tears in my eyes. At the end of page 24, half way through chapter 2, I had to put the book down. I wept. In what Olga calls her "second terrible error" (her "first" being that of wanting to go with her husband wherever he was being sent), she had saved her mother and eldest son from hard work, but unknowingly condemned them, along with her youngest son, to death in the gas chambers. I can only imagine the guilt that she felt, yet it was the Nazi's carrying out these ...  Read the complete review