Cold Crematorium - Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz

A lost classic of Holocaust literature translated for the first time - from journalist, poet and survivor Jozsef Debreczeni When Jozsef Debreczeni arrived in Auschwitz in 1944, had he been selected to go ''left'', his life expectancy would have been approximately forty-five minutes. One of the ''lucky'' ones, he was sent to the ''right'', which led to twelve horrifying months of incarceration and slave labour in a series of camps, ending in the ''Cold Crematorium'' - the so-called hospital of the forced labour camp Dornhau, where prisoners too weak to work were left to die. Debreczeni beat the odds and survived. Very soon he committed his experiences to paper in Cold Crematorium , one of the harshest and powerful indictments of Nazism ever written. This haunting memoir, rendered in the precise and unsentimental prose of an accomplished journalist, compels the reader to imagine human beings in circumstances impossible to comprehend intellectually. First published in Hungarian in 1950 but never translated into English, this important eyewitness account finally takes its place among the great works of Holocaust literature. ''A literary diamond... A holocaust memoir worthy of Primo Levi'' The Times ''A masterpiece'' New Statesman

Product details

• Authors: Jozsef Debreczeni, József Debreczeni
• Assisted by: Jonathan Freedland (Foreword), Freedland Jonathan (Foreword), Paul Olchvary (Translation), Olchvary Paul (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 09.01.2025
• EAN: 9781784878887
• ISBN: 978-1-78487-888-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Jewish, Poland, HISTORY / Europe / Austria & Hungary, Second World War, The Holocaust, Hungary, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Autobiography: historical, political and military, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater