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Cold Crematorium : Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz

Jozsef Debreczeni, Paul Olchvary, Jonathan Freedland
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage Publishing (Vintage Classics)
Published: January 9, 2025
ISBN: 9781784878887
256 pages
Country of publication: United Kingdom

£9.99

For many years this powerful classic of Holocaust literature was forgotten. József Debreczeni was a journalist and poet who arrived in Auschwitz in 1944. He survived the initial selection and endured twelve months of incarceration and slave labour in a series of camps. He ended up in the ‘Cold Crematorium’, the so-called hospital of the forced labour camp Dörnhau, where prisoners too weak to work were left to die. Debreczeni beat the odds and survived. This is his story, written in haunting, lyrical prose, compelling us to imagine the unimaginable.

Although published in Hungarian in 1950, the book was then lost for the next seventy years. Now, finally, this important eyewitness account takes its place among the great works of Holocaust literature.

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