Journey Through Hell by Reska Weiss (1961)

Journey Through Hell: A Woman's Account of her Experiences at the Hands of the Nazis by Reska Weiss. Published by Vallentine, Mitchell & Co Ltd, London, 1961. Hardcover. Used, Good condition, torn DJ, light foxing to end papers. 255 pp.

Here is an astonishing account of a Hungarian Jewess's expriences at the hands of the Nazis. It is an authentic, first -hand description of the treatment which she, like millions of others, suffered as a victim of Hitler's policy of imposing 'The Final Solution' - the calculated attempt to exterminate the Jews of Europe. In this book the crimes for which Eichmann has been charged are seen through the eyes of  brave woman who endured and miraculously survived the inhuman tortures devised by the German conquerors.

Reska Weiss belonged to a prosperous family living in Ungvar (or Uzhorod in it's Slavonic form), a small town on the Hungarian-Czechoslovakian border now incorporated in the U.S.S.R. She tells of the gas-chambers of Auschwitz and other concentration camps, of incarceration for days on end in overcrowded railway trucks unfit for animals, of being forced to lie for hours on a rat-infested, lice-ridden garbage dump, of being shot at and left for dead in a mass grave she was forced to help dig, of a twelve-day extermination march with women being wantonly mown down by the bullets of their Nazi Guard, of her escape and of her long trek home.

This narrative of a journey through hell is a grim reminder of the depths of depravity and degradation to which human beings can sink, and at the same time is a record of a woman's fortitude sustained by hope and faith.

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