The Drowned and Saved

This book is written by a survivor of Auschwitz and this particular book of his tackles a number of deep questions and important facets of the Holocaust. His chapters are named for and focus on seperate but poignant parts of his experience and his post-release attempts at understanding what he and others had witnessed. A chapter named 'Communication' for example talks about how being boarded with people speaking other languages figuratively made his tongue wither and lead to a lack of thought because his thoughts could not exercise themselves with other like minded people. This book is fascinating, heartbreaking and enlightening.