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Olga Lengyel (19 October 1908 – 15 April 2001) was a Hungarian Jewish prisoner at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, who later wrote about her experiences in her book Five Chimneys.

She was the only member of her immediate family to survive the Holocaust.^[1]

Life and career

Lengyel was a trained surgical assistant in Kolozsvár, Hungary, (today Cluj-Napoca, Romania), working in the hospital where her husband, Dr Miklós Lengyel, was director.

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In 1944, she was deported with her husband, parents and two children to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp; she was the only member of her family to survive. She wrote about her experiences in a memoir, Five Chimneys: The Story of Auschwitz, first published in France in 1946 as Souvenirs de l'au-delà.

(A later American paperback edition was entitled I Survived Hitler's Ovens; more recent editions have used the title Five Chimneys: A Woman Survivor's True Story of Auschwitz.^[2])