In 1943, at the height of the German occupation of Holland, the Nazis took Eddie de Wind's mother to a Jewish transit camp in Vesterbork. To save her, he voluntarily went there and, in exchange for her release, agreed to work as a doctor in the camp. But Eddie didn’t have time to save his mother: she had already been deported to Auschwitz, and a year later Eddie himself ended up there with his young wife Friedel. They were separated in the concentration camp: Eddie was forced to work as a paramedic in one of the men’s barracks, Friedel ended up in the women’s block, where The notorious doctors Josef Mengele and Karl Clauberg conducted barbaric medical experiments. Approaching the women's barracks and talking to its inhabitants was strictly prohibited. For violation - execution. But this could not stop Eddie - the fear of losing Friedel was stronger than the fear of death. De Wind's memoirs are not only evidence of a crime against humanity, it is a story about the strength of spirit and what saves a person when there is no hope at all. In PDF A4 format The publishing layout of the book has been preserved.