Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers

I read a hundred or more books a year and most fade from memory with time, I can assure you however that I will never forget this book. It's mind blowing that this happened so recently and yet the masses are so clueless to the real horror and the evilness that man can harbor in themselves. This book should be mandatory reading in High Schools across the U.S. lest we forget. Well written and shocking. Not for the weak of stomach.

This book packs a real punch. The author, having been there, includes many details that make your jaw drop. While this was a horrific event in history and I cannot say that I enjoyed the book because of the gruesome nature of what went on, I can say that it kept my interest the entire way through. Now that I have finished reading it, I come away with a much better understanding of the tragedy of the holocaust.

The way Filip Muller describes what goes on in Auschwitz is amazing. He puts you right in the gas chambers with him, letting you see exactly what went on. Everyone should read this book to know of the horrors these innocent people went through. It is very graphic but too bad, it is the reality of what happened. Let's pray it never happens again.

I have read many books on the Holocaust and this is by far the most realistic and best first-hand account of life at Auschwitz. I have visited the camp and much of what historians know about Auschwitz is from this author. But it can be difficult to read because Mueller does not shy away from often gruesome details of life at Auschwitz. I actually had to take a break from reading because it was too upsetting. But his purpose is to be truthful so people will know how horrible life was for Jews during the Holocaust. For anyone interested in learning more about the Holocaust and/or Auschwitz, this is a must-read, but be warned if you have delicate sensibilities that some of the scenes he describes are gruesome and horrific.

there are no words to describe this book ........ Eyewitness Auschwitz: three Years in the Gas Chambers. What more can we say than what the title already conveys. The very worst thing in the entire book was what Hauptscharfuhrer Moll, the devilish man who designed and built the pits that made it "possible to exterminate about 400,000 Hungarian Jews within a few weeks," -- was what he liked to do with babies taken from mothers and thrown into the run-off channels of boiling human fat from the burning pits.
It looks horrible enough to see this written down or think about it, but the fact is this actually occured. I can see why Muller was unable to work for 8 years after liberation. It is impossible to know what to do with information like this, and to know I have German blood in my veins though they all came during the 1880's. And it's not just the Germans who are capable of such evil, others are as well; and it could happen again. Most of the SS men seemed to be drunk all the time in order to perform these duties. This is the same we hear of the child soldiers conscripted into armies in Africa (Sierra Leone, Uganda, Liberia) and forced to carry out massacres - constantly drunk, high on weed and harder drugs.
There are of course many other things ..... massive groups of prisoners waiting in a grove of trees while just beyond the partition, a group they came with was liquidated in the burning pits. .... Not for the faint hearted, but since some people actually lived it, we owe them this - to merely read an account of it.
I was happy to know that 4 jewish prisoners escaped from Auschwitz during those years.
I loved to hear the stories of the religious men who never lost their faith in God, but viewed their death as giving their life for a higher, as yet unknown purpose of God. They were all martyrs and their blood still speaks.