I highly recommend this book. The book contains an important recollections of not only the author’s/Olga Lengyed experiences after she, her husband, their 2 children, her mother & father arrives from their hometown & gets off of the cattle wagon & down to the ramp at Auschwitz where the selection process took place. The author Olga Lengyed style of writing differs from other books I’ve read, I can’t really pinpoint the exact differences, but what I picked up whilst listening was how she rarely went into details of her own personal suffering, even though it’s very clear in the book that she suffered immensely throughout her time in Auschwitz-Birkenau, one amongst so many of the Nazis extermination camps all over Europe. One of the major difference I noticed is her intentional dedication of reserving a part of her book to name other people, both people she knew the name of as well as some of whom she didn’t remember their names but could clearly recall their immense sufferings. She sprinkles in particular events where she herself witnessed, she describes these people’s experiences, sufferings & destinies inside of Auschwitz. She either promised herself,- and/or “they’ll” promised each other that whomever survived should also help the others who didn’t survived to give testimony of their experiences of the Nazis brutalities inside of Auschwitz, one of the many different extermination camps that the Nazis operated throughout all of Europe. Olga Lengyed’s story mainly plays out inside Auschwitz-Birkenau, & in one of Auschwitz several satellites camp, think it’s the camp called Bona, but it could also have been Monowitz. Another very interesting & fascinating thing I noticed was that afterOlga had been “processed” into the camps system, it suddenly appeared to me as her story overlapped almost perfectly with another survivor’s book called “The 23rd Psalm: A Holocaust Memoir” - written by George Salton, I probably wouldn’t have noticed it if it hadn’t been for the fact that I’d just finished it right before I started listening to Olga’s book. And I also discovered that that wasn’t the only crossover & correlation between other Shoah survivors testimonial-books, and that imo is what makes this book feel so deep, profound & gives a unique perspective/insight. Best regards, Grace