Dreams of Auschwitz

By Michael Orton Dew

In the spring of 1944, Nazi Germany began the last of its major transports of European Jews, the Jews of Hungary, to the complex of labor and extermination camps in southwestern Poland that the Germans called Auschwitz. The Jews were not the only people deemed by the Third Reich as Lebensunwertes Leben (life unworthy of life) and sent to Auschwitz to be used as slave labor and then, one way or another, eliminated, but they were the primary target.

This is a fictional account of one woman's journey from her home in Hungary into that unimaginable nightmare, one that places her in the paths of Josef Mengele and Irma Grese and, over a nine month period of imprisonment in the Birkenau death camp, challenges her ability to not only remain alive and sane but to remain human. Though surrounded by death and faced with the likely loss of her entire family, she refuses to collapse into fear and resignation before her captors; refuses to relinquish her mind and soul to them; refuses to become like them by returning their hatred with hate. Instead, she tries to understand them in an attempt to comprehend how "a civilized people" could produce the monsters which the Nazis so brutally demonstrated themselves to be.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0B37VSN7R
• ISBN13: 9798808667587
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"