Last stop Auschwitz My story of survival from within the camp

Eddy de Wind, 1916-1987

Book - 2020

Journal written in Auschwitz by a Holocaust survivor in the weeks following the camp's liberation by the Red Army.

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Subjects
Genres
Personal narratives
Published
New York ; Boston : Grand Central Publishing 2020.
Language
English
Dutch
Main Author
Eddy de Wind, 1916-1987 (author)
Other Authors
David Colmer, 1960- (translator)
Edition
First U.S. edition
Item Description
Originally published in Dutch as Eindstation Auschwitz in 1946.
Physical Description
227 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN
9781538701430
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Review by Library Journal Review

In 1940, when Germany invaded the Netherlands, de Wind was a young doctor studying to be a psychotherapist. In 1943, his mother was placed in the transit camp Westerbork, and de Wind agreed to work there in exchange for the promise that his mother wouldn't be relocated to a concentration camp--but when he arrived there, she was gone. He married a nurse, Friedel, and a year later they were transferred to Auschwitz. Even though de Wind served as camp doctor, Friedel still became one of the victims of Josef Mengele's experiments. When the author found Friedel later, her physical and emotional pain led to a shift in their marriage, which never recovered. However, while de Wind was in Auschwitz, he kept a journal about a fictitious doctor named "Hans" with a wife named "Friedel," bequeathing to us a record, straightforward and devastating, of how one survives the unimaginable. After the war, de Wind became one of the first mental health professionals to treat and write about the form of PTSD called concentration camp syndrome. VERDICT This unique contribution to the literature of the Holocaust will prove invaluable to all readers interested in recollections and histories of the period.--David Keymer, Cleveland

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