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

Author: Olga Lengyel

Narrator: Jennifer Wydra

Unabridged: 8 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/08/2019

Synopsis

Olga Lengyel tells, frankly and without compromise, one of the most horrifying stories of all time. This true, documented chronicle is the intimate, day-to-day record of a beautiful woman who survived the nightmare of Auschwitz and Birchenau. This book is a necessary reminder of one of the ugliest chapters in the history of human civilization. It was a shocking experience. It is a shocking book.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lewis on December 22, 2019

UPDATE 12-22-19 ... fascinating and horrifying to read ... one Nazi atrocity after another, brought down to the personal level of a single person and a single incident ... how can people become so horrible? what do people have to do to survive in such a world? ************ This book, and In the Hell......more

Goodreads review by Matal “The Mischling Princess” on May 02, 2025

When the hit movie “Sophie’s Choice” was written, it was loosely based on Olga Lengyel’s Holocaust memoir, “Five Chimneys: A Woman Survivor's True Story of Auschwitz.” Published in January 1947, this memoir was one of the earliest to be published. After reading the book, I watched Lengyel’s USC Shoah......more

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