I'll not be giving this book a star-rating, because it's impossible to rate. On the one hand, the writing is very meandering and confusing, which makes the book very hard to read. On the other hand, it's a first-hand account of a concentration-camp survivor, which makes this book important.

It is the first such book that I have read, so I do not know if I would recommend it - there may be other such books that are easier to read. But I will say that I recommend reading some first-hand account. It is completely different from the history books, and it gives a personal view into the inhuman things that happened back then. I think the world might be a slightly better place if everyone had read something like this and knew about the horrors of that time.

This book, more than any other in recent memory, has stoked my rage against and contempt for the right-wing idiots that are running around out there, having learned nothing (or, even worse: The wrong lessons) from history.