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          Five Chimneys

          1946 book by Olga Lengyel

          First edition (French)

          AuthorOlga Lengyel
          Original titleSouvenirs de l'au-delà
          SubjectThe Holocaust
          GenreAutobiography, memoir, novel
          PublisherEditions du Bateau Ivre

          Publication date

          1946

          Published in English

          1995
          Pages240
          ISBN0-89733-376-4

          Five Chimneys, originally published 1946 in French as Souvenirs de l'au-delà (Memoirs from the Beyond), is the memoir of Olga Lengyel about her time as a prisoner in the Naziconcentration camp Auschwitz.

          Background

          Olga Lengyel was born on October 19, 1909, in Transylvania, then part of Hungary.

          Oldest holocaust survivor

        1. Sonderkommando notes
        2. I was a doctor in auschwitz
        3. List of holocaust survivors
        4. Olga lengyel interview
        5. In 1944, she was deported with her parents, husband and two children to Auschwitz-Birkenau. She eventually secured work in the infirmary at Auschwitz, a position which made her survival more likely. Olga survived Auschwitz, the only one of her family to do so.

          Her husband, Miklós Lengyel, died on the Death March. After the war, she