Dr. Susan E. Cernyak-Spatz, a Holocaust survivor, is a professor emerita in the Foreign Language Department at the University of North Carolina. Her work draws from profound personal experience, offering a unique perspective on trauma and survival. Through her writings, she seeks to share vital lessons from history to prevent the recurrence of such horrors. Her literary contribution lies in transforming personal tragedy into a universal message of human resilience and memory.
Fifty years after the war Dagmar Ostermann, a former prisoner at Auschwitz- Birkenau, and Hans Wilhelm Muinch, former Nazi and SS physician, talk face to face. In this rare interview Muinch refers to himself as a 'victim', claiming that because he had to follow orders he was 'no less a victim than his prisoners'.