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Name: Five chimneys
Author: Olga Lengyel

Olga Lengyel’s memoir recounts her years as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp, detailing the extreme conditions, suffering, and survival challenges she faced during the Holocaust. Her account offers a personal perspective on the atrocities committed in World War II.

First publish date: 1947

Genre: Memoir/Personal Memoir

Authors: Olga Lengyel

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