Dentist of Auschwitz-Pa

by Benjamin Jacobs

Book Overview

" In 1941 Berek Jakubowicz (now Benjamin Jacobs) was deported from his Polish village and remained a prisoner of the Reich until the final days of the war. His possession of a few dental tools and rudimentary skills saved his life. Jacobs helped assemble V1 and V2 rockets in Buchenwald and Dora-Mittelbau; spent a year and a half in Auschwitz, where he was forced to remove gold teeth from corpses; and survived the RAF attack on three ocean liners turned...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813190126
• ISBN13: 9780813190129
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

👏 amazing

One of the most touching stories I've read to date.

A Remarkable Story of Courage and Survival

I found out about this book after reading another book that the author co-wrote. It is called The 100-Year Secret and it deals with a portion of the material that is contained in The Dentist of Auschwitz. The author spent almost five years in various camps, riding in closed railroad cars in summer, open railroad cars in winter, on death marches in the dead of winter, and on "hell ships," that were mistakingly attacked by the RAF and he, along with his brother still outlived the Nazi monsters that created this world for them. How Jacobs managed to survive his voyage through "man's inhumanity to man" is at the heart of this amazing story of survival. I promise you will not be able to put this book down.

A Survivor's Story

In Holocaust literature, this testimony is far and above one of the best I've read. The author's desire to preserve his family at all costs is gripping, yet the finality of their humanity is inevitable. One shocking exposure was the author's experience with ss-sargeant Otto Moll, one of the Holocaust's bloodiest executioners. His kindness portrayed here is in direct contrast to the testimony of Filip Muller, in "Eyewitness Auschwitz", another must read for the serious student of history. I would recommend this book for its human interest value.

Wonderfully Written

Jacobs captures the hardships of life under Nazi Occupation in terms anyone can understand.A wonderful text which gives people an inside look at life in the concentration camps,a must read for anyone who ever thought of holocaust victims as individuals rather than a statistic.

Magnificent Book

This book is magnificent. It is one of the most human accounts of the Holocaust. It is exciting, tragic, triumphant, and beautifully written. A must-read.

A truly compelling read. I literaly could'nt put it down.

One of the best books I've read in years, I started it to kill time until the family returned from shopping, with every intention of spending the remainder of the day at the lake enjoying the magnificent 76 degree sunny saturday. However it hooked me and I ended up sitting in my study well into the evening until I'd finished it. The authors prose is truly compelling, he breathes life into the pages of this book, his timing is impecable, the readers interest never falters.