Auschwitz: Voices from the Death Camp examines Auschwitz, the largest death camp of the Holocaust. It discusses the camp's construction and daily workings and explains how more than 1 million people were murdered there. 

The book also features true accounts from prisoners of the camp and Nazi perpetrators: 

>Rudolf Höss (the camp commandant), 

>Pery Broad (a camp official), 

> Kazimierz Albin (one of the first Polish prisoners),

>Andrey Pogozhev (a Russian POW), 

>Walter Winter (a Roma prisoner), 

>Dr. Miklos Nyiszli (a prisoner forced to work for Dr. Mengele), 

>Shlomo Dragon (a prisoner forced to work in the sonderkommando), 

>Anna Heilman (a prisoner whose sister participated in the 1944 uprising), 

>Primo Levi (a prisoner who became a famous writer), and 

>Éva Heyman (a prisoner who left behind a diary). 

 

Each chapter includes compelling primary source passages (often in the first person).

 

Review in TriState Reviews (TriState Young Adult Review Committee in PA, DE, and NJ; February 7, 2012):

"Subtitled 'Voices from the Death Camp,' this book relates the horrific events that occurred in Auschwitz during the Holocaust.... James M. Deem provides a brief, yet complete summary of  “Auschwitz I: The Administrative Center,” “Auschwitz II: The Death Camp,” Auschwitz III: Slave Labor Camps,” and “The End of Auschwitz.” Subsequent chapters relate the origins, construction and daily workings of the death camp through personal accounts and diary excerpts.

"The book is both exceptionally well written and exciting.  The book is remarkably nonjudgmental, non-sensationalized, and compassionately objective in its presentation of information. Each chapter offers the personal narratives of several of the active participants: Jewish, Polish, Gypsy prisoners, Soviet POWs, and Nazi officials and guards. First person accounts are presented in cursive script and discuss events, experiences, and outcomes. They share their feelings, fears and memories of Auschwitz and how their “selection” was made. The book ends with a timeline, chapter notes, glossary, further reading, and an index. This is a must purchase for any library."