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Title: Hanged at Auschwitz by Sim Kessel ISBN: 0-900735-18-X Publisher: Talmy Franklin Pub. Date: 1973 Format: Unknown Binding

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)

Rating: 5
Summary: Rivetting testiment to the human will to survive
Comment: Like many, I've read my share of books on the individual experience of the Holocaust. This one shook my senses so profoundly that I've had trouble sleeping and woke recently in the wee hours after bad dreams!

Kessel was a member of the French Resistance who endured incredibly sadistic beatings, physical labor designed to slowly sap a person's lifeforce and two condemnations of death. He personally witnessed so many incidents of murder and unspeakable behavior by his captors and fellow inmates that they become, as he relates, almost normal in light of their daily occurence. He recounts his story at times with detachment but always the reader is struck by the overall unrelenting anguish of the time -- from January 1943 until liberation -- that he endured. The horror is real and, as he points out, the possibility of ANY human being succumbing to such animalistic, base behavior is utterly and completely real. One needs only to recall a couple of recent events such as "ethnic cleansing" in Eastern Europe, or the systematic murder of the Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994 to know that Kessel speaks a universal truth.

Elie Wiesel expounded on the importance of never forgetting man's inhumanity to man. Read this account and I promise you will not only be reminded but also amazed and awed at one man's capacity to survive against every single odd!