When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944 they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to
Auschwitz. A Hungarian Jew and a medical doctor Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared from death for a
grimmer fate: to perform "scientific research" on his fellow inmates under the supervision of
the infamous "Angel of Death": Dr. Josef Mengele. Nyiszli was named Mengele's personal research
pathologist. Miraculously he survived to give this terrifying and sobering account of the
terror of Auschwitz. This new Penguin Modern Classics edition contains an introduction by
Richard Evans.
