In 1943, amidst the start of German occupation, Eddy de Wind worked as a doctor at Westerbork, a Dutch transit camp. His mother had been taken to this camp by Nazis but Eddy was assured by the Jewish Council she would be freed in exchange for his labor. He later found out she'd already been transferred to Auschwitz, where he would be sent as well. Here, Eddy provides a minute-by-minute true account from his journal of fighting for his life at the largest extermination camp in Nazi Germany. In this poignant account, translated for the first time into English, he provides unparalleled access to the atrocities faced in the camp, a place where he observes the kind of behavior-both good and evil-people are capable of.