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I Survived Hitler’s Ovens (Five Chimneys) – The Uncensored Truth – The Diary of a Jewish Doctor Who Escaped Deportation to the Gas Chambers in Auschwitz. United States, 1947 – First English Edition - ”I Survived Hitler ovens (Five Chimneys) - The uncensored truth - A picture of utter hell...Birkenau had four large cremation furnaces for prisoners. Ashes became fertilizer...”, By the Hungarian Jewish prisoner Olga Lengyel - ”Complete and Unabridged” - Published by The Ziff Davis Publishing, New York, 1947 – First Uncensored English Edition. One of the Most Influential Books in Shaping Public Awareness of the Holocaust. ”This book may shock you. It tells, with raw honesty and without compromise, one of the most horrifying true stories of all time. It is the intimate, day-by-day account of a beautiful woman who survived the nightmare horror of Auschwitz and Birkenau, where, day and night, without pause, five burning chimneys spewed forth the stench of burning flesh—among them, the author's own parents and two children! This is the documented, firsthand chronicle of organized sadism, systematic cruelty, personal humiliation beyond belief, monstrous depravity, and mass slaughter—all of which were the deliberate and calculated products of the twisted philosophy of the ‘Master Race.’ Olga Lengyel survived only because, as the wife of a respected surgeon, she was deemed useful in the ‘hospital’ of the women’s camp. She witnessed the infamous ‘scientific experiments’ performed on living human beings. She saw, day after day, the notorious Josef Kramer, ‘The Beast of Belsen, ’ and his sadistic blonde companion, Irma Grese. She endured, marked forever with the scars and the tattooed number of her captivity—yet she emerged with a self-imposed mission: to bring to the world the full truth of what the ideology of a ‘Master Race’ can lead to. This is a harrowing—yet essential—reminder of one of the ugliest chapters in human civilization, a tragedy that could happen again in any nation plagued by dictators and intolerance.” (From the publisher's introduction.). One of the First Publications to Describe the Atrocities of the Nazi Extermination Camps in an Uncensored Manner, Particularly Auschwitz-Birkenau. Olga Lengyel (born 1908) was a Hungarian-Jewish doctor who worked as an assistant to her husband at the ”Dr. Lengyel Hospital” in Transylvania. In 1944, she and her husband were arrested by the Gestapo and forced onto a cattle car bound for Berlin along with about a hundred others, most of them Jewish doctors. After a week of a nightmarish journey, during which many passengers perished from suffocation and overcrowding, she and her family arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Upon exiting the train cars, Olga, her mother, and her son were separated from her husband and father—in reality, she would be the only survivor of her entire family. Thus began her ordeal of torment in Auschwitz, which would last almost until the war’s end. On her first day in the camp, Olga underwent an invasive, excruciating ”examination” along with other women. Her hair was shaved, and she was whipped for not responding quickly enough to a Nazi officer's questions. Because she was a doctor, she soon became a regular witness to the selections conducted by Josef Mengele and Irma Grese. Olga described Mengele’s chilling composure as he sent Jews to their deaths: ”There was a certain wildness in Mengele’s eyes that made one uneasy. During the selections, he did not utter a word. He simply sat and whistled to himself while pointing his thumb either right or left, deciding the fate of those before him. Although he made decisions that meant extermination, he remained smug and pleasant as could be.” She recounted the final moments of those sentenced to death: ”The condemned men and women were led toward the main entrance. There, a truck awaited to transport them to the gas chambers. When the death facilities were overcrowded, they were sent to special barracks or latrines, where they waited for hours, sometimes days, until their turn came for gassing. Everything was done in an orderly fashion, without an ounce of compassion from our commanders.” Olga herself was once sent to the gas chambers but managed to escape while standing in the death row, waiting to board the truck bound for the gas chambers. She picked up a long stick from the ground, using it to give herself an air of authority over the other condemned women. This act caused the officer loading prisoners onto the truck to overlook her, allowing her to remain behind and escape death. The most horrifying part of the book is the chapters in which Olga describes the industrialized death machinery inside the camp. Because she was a doctor assigned to transporting corpses to the ”dead room, ” she was granted access to the most nightmarish areas of the gas chambers. Olga details the extermination process step by step—the transport of the condemned to their deaths,