'How much I learned from this brave man... The ultimate Holocaust testimony.' HEATHER MORRIS
author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's Journey With an Afterword by JOHN BOYNE
author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas _______________ Eddy de Wind a Dutch doctor and
psychiatrist was shipped to Auschwitz with his wife Friedel whom he had met and married at
the Westerbork labour camp in the Netherlands. At Auschwitz they made it through the brutal
selection process and were put to work. Each day each hour became a battle for survival. For
Eddy this meant negotiating with the volatile guards in the medical barracks. For Friedel it
meant avoiding the Nazis' barbaric medical experiments. As the end of the war approached and
the Russian Army drew closer the last Nazis fled taking many prisoners with them including
Friedel. Eddy hid under a pile of old clothes and stayed behind. Finding a notebook and pencil
he began to write with furious energy about his experiences. Last Stop Auschwitz is an
extraordinary account of life as a prisoner a near real-time record of the daily struggle to
survive but also of the flickering moments of joy Eddy and Friedel found in each other -
passing notes through the fence sometimes stealing a brief embrace. Documenting the best and
the worst of humanity it is a unique and timeless story that reminds us of what we as humans
are capable of but that there is hope even in Hell. Thought to be the only complete book
written within Auschwitz itself it will linger with you long after the final page has been
turned. _______________ 'Powerful and moving.' WENDY HOLDEN author of Born Survivors
