A terrifying account of the survivors in striped pyjamas

Survivor: Auschwitz, The Death March and My Fight for Freedom

**By Sam Pivnik**

**Hodder & Stoughton, €17.60**

**Reviewed by Dermot Bolger**

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When the teenage Sam Pivnik, along with his starving parents and five younger siblings, stumbled onto the railway platform at Auschwitz II/Birkenau in August 1943, the figures that fascinated him were not German. Certainly, the Waffen-SS were there: their curses blending with orders being snarled over loudspeakers and barking dogs as ...