József Debreczeni, a prolific Hungarian-language journalist and poet, arrived in Auschwitz in 1944. One of the "lucky" ones, he spent twelve horrifying months of incarceration and slave labor in a series of camps, ending in the "Cold Crematorium" - the so-called hospital of the forced labour camp Dörnhau. Debreczeni recorded his experiences in Cold Crematorium, one of the harshest, most merciless indictments of Nazism ever written. First published in Hungarian in 1950, it was never translated into a world language due to McCarthyism, Cold War hostilities, and antisemitism.
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