Overview:

Written by Miklos Nyiszli, a Jewish-Hungarian doctor, the memoir details his experience being forced to work under Josef Mengele at Auschwitz. Nyiszli was assigned to perform autopsies and assist with Mengele’s experiments.

Content:

• Vivid descriptions of Mengele’s twin experiments, which involved dissection and injecting substances into children.
• Details of the systematic dehumanization and death faced by Auschwitz prisoners.
• Insight into the emotional and moral dilemmas Nyiszli faced as a doctor forced to assist in atrocities.

Significance:

This memoir remains one of the most important firsthand accounts of the medical horrors at Auschwitz and provides a unique perspective from someone with medical expertise.

Where to Access:

Published widely in book form, available in libraries, bookstores, and online. Original Hungarian editions can be found in historical archives.