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Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers
Filip Muller came to Auschwitz with one of the earliest transports from Slovakia in April 1942 and began working in the gassing installations and crematoria in May. He was still alive when the gassings ceased in November 1944. He saw millions come and disappear; by sheer luck he survived. Muller is neither a historian nor a psychologist; he is a source one of the few priso...more
Paperback, 180 pages
Published
August 24th 1999
by Ivan R. Dee Publisher
(first published 1999)
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I wouldn't say I enjoyed this book as such - I don't think one is supposed to say they enjoy reading this kind of thing - but this was a very insightful - and graphic - account of what life was like in the death camps of what the Nazi's dubbed 'The Final Solution'.
I'd recommend this book to anyone who is interested in reading about the Holocaust. In fact, I think everyone should read this so that this awful stain on human history is never forgotten and more so that this is never allowed to happe...more
I'd recommend this book to anyone who is interested in reading about the Holocaust. In fact, I think everyone should read this so that this awful stain on human history is never forgotten and more so that this is never allowed to happe...more
I've mentioned this many times -- I like to read Holocaust and WWII memoirs because they show the beauty of man overcoming the ugly.
Well, this book is indeed about the ugly -- the ugliest I've ever read.
This is an unprecedented memoir of a man who ends up being a prisoner at Aushwitz as a crematorium worker. He managed to smuggle out plans of the crematoria and the camps and seeing them in detail is more than sobering. He also gives detailed, intense commentary on exactly what went on in selecti...more
Well, this book is indeed about the ugly -- the ugliest I've ever read.
This is an unprecedented memoir of a man who ends up being a prisoner at Aushwitz as a crematorium worker. He managed to smuggle out plans of the crematoria and the camps and seeing them in detail is more than sobering. He also gives detailed, intense commentary on exactly what went on in selecti...more
Filip Muller came to Auschwitz with one of the earliest transports from Slovakia in April 1942 and began working in the gassing installations and crematoria in May. He was still alive when the gassings ceased in November 1944. He saw millions come and disappear; by sheer luck he survived. Muller is neither a historian nor a psychologist; he is a source one of the few prisoners who saw the Jewish people die and lived to tell about it. Eyewitness Auschwitz is one of the key documents of the Holoca...more
If you are going to read one holocaust book it should either be this or Night.
"Suddenly a voice began to sing. Others joined in, and the sound swelled into a mighty choir. They sang firs the Czechoslovak national anthem and then the Hebrew song 'Hatikvah'. And all this time the SS men never stopped their brutal beatings. It was as if they regarded the singing as a last kind of protest which they were determined to stifle if they could To be allowed to die together was the only comfort left to th...more
"Suddenly a voice began to sing. Others joined in, and the sound swelled into a mighty choir. They sang firs the Czechoslovak national anthem and then the Hebrew song 'Hatikvah'. And all this time the SS men never stopped their brutal beatings. It was as if they regarded the singing as a last kind of protest which they were determined to stifle if they could To be allowed to die together was the only comfort left to th...more
I've visited Auschwitz. I've walked the stark grounds with a shaking feeling of anger too great to express at the sheer arrogant absurdity of it all. The practical idiotic mindset and machine which the Nazis created to perpetrate such unspeakable crimes, yet rather ordinary people allowed themselves to be manipulated into doing so and rationalized the acts. And then you have Filip, a prisoner, who with chained hands was forced to help turn the cogs for a time.
I've an extensive library of Holoca...more
I've an extensive library of Holoca...more
I liked this book as much as it is possible to like a book that centers around the mass extermination of an entire race of people. Filip Muller's memoir of his three year imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp recreates the vivid details of the life of a young man forced to assist in the mass murders of thousands of Jews in order to stay alive.
Muller works in the crematorium - picking up the clothes left behind by people who thought they were going to the showers, but were really going to th...more
Muller works in the crematorium - picking up the clothes left behind by people who thought they were going to the showers, but were really going to th...more
Eyewitness Auschwitz,
Three Years in the Gas Chambers
Written By: Filip Muller
Published by Ivan R Dee, Chicago, 1st Ed. By this Publisher, Published in Association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1999, paperback, 180 pages.
“Eyewitness Auschwitz is an exceptionally graphic, in-depth and carefully recounted description of Filip Muller’s improbable three-year survival in the Gas Chambers of Auschwitz, one of the most infamous Nazi Extermination Camps”BCM
Filip Muller was born in Sere...more
Three Years in the Gas Chambers
Written By: Filip Muller
Published by Ivan R Dee, Chicago, 1st Ed. By this Publisher, Published in Association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1999, paperback, 180 pages.
“Eyewitness Auschwitz is an exceptionally graphic, in-depth and carefully recounted description of Filip Muller’s improbable three-year survival in the Gas Chambers of Auschwitz, one of the most infamous Nazi Extermination Camps”BCM
Filip Muller was born in Sere...more
I haven't read this book in at least 10 years, but it has always stuck with me. I've recommended it to numerous people. I don't feel I can say too much here since it's been so long since I've read it, but I want to urge others to experience Filip Muller's story for themselves. It is a real eye opener. Although it will haunt you, I think it's important that the atrocities of the Nazi regime are not forgotten so they are not repeated.
I don't know if you could score this as "loved it" when it is essentially an incredibly detailed, graphic and alarming account of Muller's experience working in the gas chambers and mass graves at Auschwitz over 3 years. It was powerful and, by the time the book is over, there is nothing left to the imagination. I had to read it in small chunks as it is incredibly intense and sometimes had to remind myself that this actually happened.
If you read holocaust literature and are looking for more of...more
If you read holocaust literature and are looking for more of...more
I was reading this on the train to work, and I had to snap the book shut because I very nearly just started crying at one part. It's hard to wrap your mind around the fact that this actually happened, that people could do this to another human being, that Filip survived and was able to pen this.
(Not so much 'loved it', but star rating relates to importance and relevance.)
(Not so much 'loved it', but star rating relates to importance and relevance.)
My dad and I share a huge interest in the Holocaust and world war two so I've read pretty much every book on it that I've been able to get my hands on.
This without a doubt is the most detailed and hard hitting one I have come across. It was so horrific that I had to stop reading several times because I became so distraught.
A very good read but an extrememly dark one.
This without a doubt is the most detailed and hard hitting one I have come across. It was so horrific that I had to stop reading several times because I became so distraught.
A very good read but an extrememly dark one.
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Very hard to read...so emotionally draining that I had to break it up into many sessions. Probably the most important book I have ever read - truly showed me the capacity for evil we possess as humans... This book will remain a part of me forever. A must-read for anyone READY for a first-hand accounting of the holocaust...
A firsthand account from someone who was there and survived to tell his story. It's been a while since I read this but I felt the need to re-read it after watching Mr. Muller in the movie "Shoah." I recommend that everyone read this book, especially if your knowledge of the Holocaust is limited.
I read this after visiting Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. I wanted more real-life accounts of the Holocaust atrocities. I was stuck in the horror with a broken heart of the reality of this part in our world's history.
Three stars because it feels wrong give a higher rating to a story that exists only because of the devastation caused by Hitler's insane evil.
But these kinds of books should be read and digested so that history does not repeat itself. Many of us live a charmed life in sa...more
Three stars because it feels wrong give a higher rating to a story that exists only because of the devastation caused by Hitler's insane evil.
But these kinds of books should be read and digested so that history does not repeat itself. Many of us live a charmed life in sa...more
.......Story of a survivor of the gas chamber......Gives such disturbing detail.......I have read many Holocaust memoirs, and although feel we all need to remember the Holocaust for it's horror, I don't think that the average person would finish reading this book.
Muller really did not wish to write a memoir surrounding his time at Auschwitz, once he left the camp he was prepared to leave that world behind him. I am so very glad that he changed his mind.
This is perhaps the most encompassing of all books written by Auschwitz survivors. Muller managed to survive far longer than most in the horrendous place. The reason for his survival was the knowledge of the secrets of what was really going on in the showers, something he became intimately connected with.
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This is perhaps the most encompassing of all books written by Auschwitz survivors. Muller managed to survive far longer than most in the horrendous place. The reason for his survival was the knowledge of the secrets of what was really going on in the showers, something he became intimately connected with.
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It took me awhile to read this book. Its graphic and horrifying at times. Ive read several books on the Holocaust, and none have been as graphic (with the gassings-and events leading up to the gassings) as this book. I definatelyrecommend the book.
Undeniably the best and first account of the experiences of a Sonderkommando in Auschwitz-Birkenau. His eyewitness account of history is extremely important. He was also interviewed in the Shoah tv documentary series.
This book gives a true account of life working in the gas chambers in Auschwitz. It's morbid, sometimes disturbing but fascinating at the same time.
Words do not do this book justice..... Filip Muller's eyewitness account of the atrocities committed at Auschwitz should never be forgotten.
I loved the ending...guess you'll have to read it. AS for me I've read enough evil Nazi stories...no more for me.
Jun 10, 2009
Candy
marked it as to-read
Ever since I read The Diary of Anne Frank, I have been very interested in the Holocaust.
An eye opening account of survival. A must read for every student of history.
Chilling and morbid story of how we such evil can exist. An important book.
A detailed account of the events that occurred in Auschwitz.
Really graphic an depressing but it really makes you think.
fucking sucjked dick hole motha fucka
Even for a seasoned Holocaust reader, this account is profoundly painful. But should be required reading . . .
Disturbing and insightful!
Aug 19, 2012
Amy Spinks
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This is a difficult read!
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Filip Müller (born 1922, Sered, Czechoslovakia) was one of very few Sonderkommandos to have survived Auschwitz, the largest Nazi German extermination camp. He witnessed the exterminations and gassings of millions of Jews and lived to write one of the key documents of the Holocaust. Published in 1979, Müller's Eyewitness Auschwitz - Three Years in the Gas Chambers was his first-hand account of the...more
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