“What I saw at Auschwitz”: behind the barbed wire of the death camp, with Alter Fajnzylberg

Alter Fajnzylberg put on paper what the barbarism was at Auschwitz-Birkenau. This appalling story, the communist deportee had the courage to tell it after surviving the largest concentration camp and extermination complex of the Third Reich.

On his return to France, this seasoned resistance fighter, a Polish Jew, set about methodically recording in school notebooks the hell endured in this camp from his arrival in April 1942 until his liberation on January 27, 1945. , by the Soviet Red Army.