Unable to escape unscathed from such reading. The inside view is amazing and the words of Shlomo Venezia struggling to describe the harsh reality, that of an industrial genocide where he was one of the cogs in spite of himself. His life in Greece until he came to Auschwitz and his work in one of the crematoria of this sinister camp, Venezia forget any detail, it is macabre. It is impossible to imagine, even after reading this book, what was the detention and life in the midst of the death of this young Greek loses much of his family in Poland. The German killing machine, inventive to satisfy his madness, is not forgotten by the author tells the story of the death camp and the long marches to escape the Soviet army from the east. A fundamental book to better understand one of the most sordid aspects of the war.