A lost classic of Holocaust literature translated for the first time―from journalist, poet and survivor József Debreczeni"As immediate a confrontation of the horrors of the camps as I’ve ever encountered. It’s also a subtle if startling meditation on what it is to attempt to confront those horrors with words…Debreczeni has preserved a panoptic depiction of hell, at once personal, communal and atmospheric." ―New York Times"A treasure...Debreczeni’s memoir is a crucial contribution to Holocaust literature, a book that enlarges our understanding of 'life' in Auschwitz." ―Wall Street Journal"A literary diamond...A holocaust memoir worthy of Primo Levi." ―The Times of London"It should be required reading." ―Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything Is Illuminated"A timely reminder of man's inhumanity to man." ―Jung Chang, author of Wild SwansJózsef Debreczeni, a prolific Hungarian-language journalist and poet, arrived in Auschwitz in 1944; had he been sel
