Last Stop Auschwitz: My story of survival from within the camp Audiobook (Free)

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Presented by Penguin.

‘How much I learned from this fearless man… The ultimate Holocaust testimony.’ HEATHER MORRIS, writer of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka’s Journey

With an Afterword by JOHN BOYNE, writer of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Eddy de Blowing wind, a Dutch doctor and psychiatrist, was shipped to Auschwitz with his wife Friedel, whom he previously met and married in the Westerbork labour camp in holland. At Auschwitz, they managed to get through the brutal selection about Last End Auschwitz: My story of survival from within the camp process and were put to work. Each day, each hour became a battle for survival.

For Eddy, this meant negotiating with the volatile guards in the medical barracks. For Friedel, it meant preventing the Nazis’ barbaric medical tests. As the finish of the battle approached as well as the Russian Military drew closer, the final Nazis fled, acquiring many prisoners with them, including Friedel. Eddy hid under a pile of older clothes and stayed behind. Getting a notebook and pencil, he started to create with furious energy about his experiences.

Last End Auschwitz can be an extraordinary account of life being a prisoner, a near real-time record of the daily struggle to survive but also of the flickering moments of joy Eddy and Friedel found in each other – passing notes through the fence, sometimes stealing a short embrace. Documenting the best and the most severe of humanity, it really is a distinctive and timeless tale that reminds us of what we as humans can handle, but that there surely is hope, actually in Hell. Regarded as the only total book created within Auschwitz itself, it’ll linger with you long after the last page has been turned.

‘Powerful and moving.’ WENDY HOLDEN, writer of Born Survivors