Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-218) and index.

The train ride to Auschwitz / by Rena Kornreich Gelissen -- Old and sick to the left, healthy to the right / by Leo Fettman -- The first day / by Sara Tuvel Bernstein -- The first day / by Sara Tuvel Bernstein -- The intellectual as laborer / by Jean Amery -- The special work detail / by Oscar Berger -- A nurse at Auschwitz / by Olga Lengyel -- Roll call / by Max Mayr -- Starvation / by Livia Bitton-Jackson -- Underground commerce / by Samuel Willenberg -- Apathy / by Viktor E. Frankl -- Selection / by Primo Levi -- Murdering babies / by Sara Nomberg-Przytyk -- The twins experiment / by Miklos Nyiszli -- A relief when father dies / by Elie Wiesel -- Auschwitz: the greatest extermination center / by Rudolf Hoss -- An eyewitness account of a gassing / by Kurt Gerstein -- A sympathetic German / by Christa M. -- Rebellion / by Thomas Toivi Blatt -- The death march / by Jack Eisner -- Liberation day / by Lucie Adelsberger -- A war correspondent's story / by Edward R. Murrow -- The Germans share collective guilt / by Benjamin Bender.