An Auschwitz prisoner's remarkable account of suffering and survival, widely thought to be the only complete book written inside the camp itself.
Eddy de Wind (1916-87) was the last Jewish doctor to graduate from Leiden University in the Netherlands during World War Two. He was transported to Auschwitz in 1943. Following the camp's liberation in January 1945, De Wind returned to Holland and specialized as a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. In 1949 he published 'Confrontation with Death', his famous article in which he introduced the idea of concentration-camp syndrome. Last Stop Auschwitz was published in Dutch in February 1946 and in English for the first time in 2020. It is the only complete book written in Auschwitz itself.
Never have I had to stop reading and sit and stare at the wall -
the words of Eddy dug deep into my heart, and I felt a physical
pain as I connected to his suffering and the suffering of others he
described... How much I learned from this brave man.
*Heather Morris, author of THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ and CILKA'S
JOURNEY*
Hopeful and haunting.
*The i*
An extraordinary account of De Wind's life as a prisoner
*Bookseller, Editor's Choice*
Has an urgency and intensity which makes it unique.
*Irish Times*
Last Stop Auschwitz, with its many details, written at speed and
with all the immediacy that comes with describing events still
alive and raw in the mind, is a valuable addition to the vast
literature on the Holocaust.
*The Tablet*
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