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In 1943 Polish underground fighter John Wiernicki is captured and beaten by the Gestapo, then delivered to Auschwitz. Within this chilling memoir, Wiernicki, a Gentile, details life in the infamous death camp, and his challenge to survive, in physical form and morally, when confronted with utter evil. The writer begins by remembering his aristocratic children, an idyllic time shattered by German invasion. The ensuing dark days and nights of occupation would open fire the adolescent Wiernicki with a getting rid of desire to provide Poland, a reason that led him to valiant action and eventual arrest. As a non-Jew, Wiernicki was acutely hypersensitive to the depravity and injustice that engulfed him at Auschwitz. He bears witness to the harrowing selection and extermination of Jews doomed by birth to the gas chambers, to savage camp regulations, brutal SS doctors, and rampant corruption with the machine. He notes the difference in treatment between Jews and non-Jews. And he relives fearful unexpected encounters with two notorious "Angels of Death": Josef Mengele and Heinz Thilo. Battle in the Shadow of Auschwitz can be an important historical and personal file.
