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Hanged at Auschwitz: An Extraordinary Memoir of Survival
Author(s): Sam Kessel (Author)
- Publisher: Cooper Square Press
- Publication Date: 4 Dec. 2001
- Language: English
- Print length: 198 pages
- ISBN-10: 0815411626
- ISBN-13: 9780815411628
Book Description
A Jewish member of the French Resistance, Sim Kessel lived for almost three years in Nazi captivity. The bulk of his time was at the Auschwitz concentration camp, where he survived torture, starvation, and even his own public execution through extraordinary luck. His remarkable and terrifying story shows in knowing and intimate detail how guards and kapos under the Nazi system degenerated into conscienceless killers, and how the desperate scramble to survive dehumanized Kessel’s fellow prisoners.
Editorial Reviews
Review
A horror story beyond comprehension…. It is a miracle that Sim Kessel lived to tell his tale. In fact, it is a series of miracles.– “Best Sellers”
A moving, intimate tale of survival that will linger and resonate long after readers finish the book.–Gerald Posner, Best-selling Author of Mengele: The Complete Story, Case Closed and Killing the Dream.
Harrowing…The bare manner of his telling adds a rare dimension…A frightening statement is powerfully implicit in this book.– “Publishers Weekly”
About the Author
Sim Kessel was a champion amateur boxer and a Jewish member of the French Resistance. Walter Laquer is a renowned scholar of the Holocaust and World War II.
