Cold crematorium : reporting from the land of Auschwitz /

"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. When József Debreczeni, a prolific Hungarian-language journalist and poet, arrived in Auschwitz in 1944, his life expectancy was forty-five...

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Main Author: Debreczeni, József, 1905-1978 (Author)
Other Authors: Olchváry, Paul (Translator), Freedland, Jonathan, 1967- (writer of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Text in English ; translated from the Hungarian.
Published: New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2023.
Edition:First U.S. edition.
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