Hanged at Auschwitz: An Extraordinary Memoir of Survival [Paperback]

A Jewish member of the French Resistance, Sim Kessel lived for almost three years in Nazi captivity. The bulk of his time was at the Auschwitz concentration camp, where he survived torture, starvation, and even his own public execution through extraordinary luck. His remarkable and terrifying story shows in knowing and intimate detail how guards and kapos under the Nazi system degenerated into conscienceless killers, and how the desperate scramble to survive dehumanized Kessel's fellow prisoners.Sim Kessel was a champion amateur boxer and a Jewish member of the French Resistance. Walter Laquer is a renowned scholar of the Holocaust and World War II.Harrowing...The bare manner of his telling adds a rare dimension...A frightening statement is powerfully implicit in this book.A horror story beyond comprehension.... It is a miracle that Sim Kessel lived to tell his tale. In fact, it is a series of miracles.A moving, intimate tale of survival that will linger and resonate long after readers finish the book.