Auschwitz is synonymous with one of the most shocking horrors in the history of mankind. Today marks a new anniversary of liberation in 1945 of the most infamous Nazi death camp. There are countless works of various genres on the subject and this is a minimal selection of novels, some based on real events, which I bring in memory of that date.
The Auschwitz Librarian — Antonio Iturbe
In this novel, the writer from Barcelona recounted a story based on real facts. In it, in barracks 31 of the camp, Freddy Hirsch has opened a makeshift school with a modest and clandestine library secret with eight books. the young Dita hides them and, at the same time, does not give up and never loses the desire to live or read.
The Auschwitz pharmacist. The Untold Story of Victor Capesius — Patricia Posner
The author tells us the story of victor capesius, one of the most sinister assassins and strangers from the Third Reich, which guarded the Nazi reserve of Zyklon B gas and provided regimen doctors with drugs to experiment on pregnant women and children. Posner first discusses his time as a salesman for the pharmaceutical industry, his subsequent adherence to Nazism, his rise in horror in those concentration camps, and how difficult it was to bring him to justice.
The boy who followed his father to Auschwitz — Jeremy Dronfield
Dronfield is a biographer, writer, novelist and historian with extensive experience telling stories set in World War II and a style that has been considered almost "Dickensian". This novel is based on secret diary of Gustav Kleinman, who, together with his son Fritz, resisted for six years in five of the worst extermination camps, including Auschwitz.
The Tattoo Artist of Auschwitz — Heather Morris
Morris was born in New Zealand and in this novel is based on the true story of Lale and Gita Sokolov, two Slovak Jews who managed to survive the Holocaust. Lale works as a tattoo artist for prisoners and among them is Gita, a young woman with whom he falls in love. Then his life will take on a new meaning and he will try to do everything possible so that Gita and the rest of the prisoners survive. After the war, they decide to move to Australia to start over.
The dancer from Auschwitz Edith eger
Born in Hungary, Eger was a teenager when the Nazis invaded her village in Hungary and deported her with the rest of her family to Auschwitz. Her parents were sent directly to the gas chamber and she remained with her sister, awaiting certain death. But when I danced The blue Danube for Dr. Mengele he saved his life and, from then on, he began to fight for the survival that he finally achieved. Then he was in the Czechoslovakia communist and ended in United States, where she would end up becoming a disciple of Viktor Frankl. It was then, after decades hiding his past, that he decided to talk about the horror he had experienced and to forgive as a way to heal wounds.
A Love in Auschwitz: A True Story — Francesca Paci
The journalist Francesca Paci reconstructs a real fact forgotten through sources extracted from the archives of the Auschwitz State Museum, documents from the time and conversations with the few witnesses of this love story that are still alive. they star it Bad Zimetbaum, a cultured and charismatic young woman, who spoke several languages and was chosen by the SS as interpreter and translator. Very generous, she always tried to help her fellow prisoners. Y Eddie, Edward Galinski, who was an unusual man because he was one of the first deportees to the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. He witnessed how that machine of genocide began and developed, but he never gave in to discouragement or despair. It was then in 1944 when, although the Third Reich was close to defeat in the war, that Edek and Mala fell in love and faced their destiny.