Title: Daniel in the Lion's Den
Product review: Filip Muller wrote this account of his lengthy term as a slave laborer on the Auschwitz Sonderkommando immediately after the war. It remains the most powerful memoir of any Holocaust survivor, bar none. Muller is in the same league with Primo Levi, Tadeusz Borowski and Jorge Semprum (Literature or Life), although his account in no way approaches the literary. It doesn't have to. The details are searing by themselves--including the escape of two prisoners who fruitlessly warned the Allies what was occurring. These permanently imprint on the reader's memory. What lends Muller's account biblical proportions is his proximity to the evil heart of the death machine--throughout the war--his daily witness to mass murder, his memory of individual victims who fought to the last. He shows the grisly, methodical progression of Nazi inhumanity, the virtual-impossibility of escape, and the fierce spirit and repeated miracles one required to survive. Alyssa A. Lappen
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