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“How far are those hazy blue mountains? How wide is the plain that stretches beneath the bright light of the spring sun? For us, they are very far, far too far, they are unattainable. Those mountains do not belong to this world, they do not belong to our world. Because between us and the mountains, there is the barbed wire. We also know that for us, there is only one end, only one way to escape this barbed wire hell: death. We know that this death wears a uniform because the gas switch is turned on by a man in uniform: SS.”

Dutch psychiatrist Eddy de Vint and his German wife Friedel were deported to Auschwitz in September 1943. They met at the transit camp of Westerbork in eastern Holland, from where Jews were mainly deported to Auschwitz but also to Bergen-Belsen. They fell in love and married in the camp and were transferred together to Auschwitz a few months later. There their paths separated: Eddy ended up in block 9 and Friedel in 10, the block for medical experiments, under the direction of the now-infamous Josef Mengele.

As the Russians approached Auschwitz in late 1944, the Nazis tried to erase their traces, forcing the prisoners, including Friedel, to walk to Germany - these marches would later be named death marches. Eddy hid and remained in Auschwitz. He found a notebook and a pencil and began to write.

In The Last Stop Auschwitz, Eddy de Vint narrates the horror of the camp and analyzes and observes human behavior - both kindness and cruelty. His testimony, as he records it from within the camp immediately after his liberation, is unique and raw.

“The Last Stop Auschwitz is the ultimate testimony of the Holocaust.” Heather Morris

“This book’s contribution to Holocaust literature and history is unparalleled.” Library Journal

“The Last Stop Auschwitz gives the reader the impression that it is a work of exceptional fiction. I wish it were so...” New York Journal of Books

“The intensity and the sense of urgency make it unique.” Irish Times

“In the last days before leaving Auschwitz, Eddy de Vint recorded what he experienced there. To tell his story, he gave the narrator another name. Hans is the one who worries about his wife, Hans - not Eddy - is the one who sees the ‘eternal smoke’ from the crematoria, Hans is the one who hears his fellow prisoner tell him that ‘not even in Holland will they believe us when we return and tell them all this.’

De Vint’s book is the only testimony, among those that have reached us, that was written inside the camp. And it is uniquely multiple.” Times Literary Supplement