Inside the Gas Chambers

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A unique book - Rated
This book is different from other books written by the survivors of Auschwitz as it contains the recollections and experiences of an individual who worked in and survived the Sonderkommando.

Not many people have survived who worked in the gas chambers and the crematoria, therefore this book is of paramount importance as a unique historical document.

The book is as you would expect, traumatic, harrowing; simple words which cannot express the sheer revulsion the common human being experiences when reading this testimony.

The book is set out in a series of questions similar to an interview. I thought at first that this would interrupt the flow and "disjoint" the book. However, the interviewer has been very thorough and precise and has linked the questions from the subject's early experiences in Greece up to his liberation at the end of the war. This allows the book to flow without jumping from one point of time to another with recognisable unfilled gaps.

I would recommend this book to people who ready and study the Holocaust, but be prepared for an emotional and deeply disturbing read.