THE GATEWAY TO DEATH

In 1944 Dr Miklos Nyiszla was transported to the most dreaded of Hitler's extermination camps - Auschwitz. There he was chosen to assist in the medical pathology work carried on among the prisoners by the infamous Dr Josef Mengele and his associates for the purpose of 'scientific research'. Almost miraculously Dr Nyiszla survived. Through his eyes, we relive not only the day-by-day horror of life in the KZ but learn of the various experiments in death which Mengele devised to bear out his theories - needless, agonising experiments. His experiences are a unique document, for no one else lived to recount the horrors that transpired within the crematorium itself - it was the gateway to death!

Translated by Tibère Kremer and Richard Seaver, with a foreword by Bruno Bettleheim.

First published in the USA by Frederick Fell, Inc. 1960
Panther edition published March 1962.
This edition August 1964
© N Margareta Nyiszli 1960.

Writing of HOUSE OF DOLLS Lord Russell of Liverpool said:
'Ka-tzetnik's book is based on a diary kept by a young Jewess who was captured in Poland when she was fourteen years old and subjected to enforced prostitution in a Nazi labour camp. It is a terrible story, which, nevertheless, should be read; it shows the depths of bestiality to which Germans sank under Hitler during World War II. The story would be incredible were not the authenticity of its background undisputed.'
This stark, compassionate story has sold over five million copies and has been translated into more than sixteen languages. It is a book that once read it is impossible to forget.

Published by Granada Publishing Ltd in 1973. This edition 1982
First published in Great Britain by Frederick Muller Ltd 1956
Published by Panther Books 1956
Reprinted 36 times.