Escaping Auschwitz: & Surviving With Hell's Mind

by Amy Cravitz

The following are carefully chosen snippets taken from the diaries of David Gershwin, an Auschwitz prisoner who escaped from the camp after spending over a year there. He watched his parents being placed in the ‘gassing line’ and saw his sister brutally killed. From being forced to help load corpses into the incinerators, to being forced to watch other prisoners being horribly abused, to himself being savagely tortured, David survived the ordeal only to live afterward totally insane for the next thirty years in an apartment in Chicago. Along the way he records his nightmares, unable to stop his wayward, terrified memories from travelling back and forth in space and time. Although taken from his gruesome diaries, this book is not for the faint of heart, nor for those who scare easily or who are prone to nightmares of their own. Still, it is based on true eyewitness accounts, and as the saying goes, ‘truth is stranger than fiction.’ Or in this case, truth is a lot scarier than the best-selling horror novels of our time. David was a very articulate and well educated man who loved the arts and had a caring, sensitive nature, probably the worst possible breeding ground for a culture shock into the seamy underbelly of Nazi terror and unspeakable atrocities. Any such mind would irreparably snap under such tremendous pressure. The mind of David Gershwin was no exception. He was driven insane. This is his true story. However, as previously stated, only his name has been changed to protect his identity.

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Published July 13, 2020