Albin Michel, 2011

Like hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews, Eva Dános (1919-2001) was deported after the Nazi invasion of her country in 1944. She survived the death camps and rebuilt her life in Australia in the 1950s. Her testimony, written in the heat of the moment just after her liberation, is a day-by-day account of the horror of the last convoys of deportees wandering from camp to camp, under Allied bombardment, in the very last weeks of the Third Reich. These cattle cars, where hunger and thirst reigned in an atmosphere of madness, were the tomb of thousands of victims.

Eva Dános's companions in this hell were Hanna Dallos and Lili Strausz, two women who lived through the extraordinary experience recounted in the book Dialogues with the Angel. She had met them in the military uniform workshop set up in 1944 in Budapest to hide Jewish women, under the direction of the woman who was to make the Dialogues known throughout the world: Gitta Mallasz, recently recognised as "Righteous Among the Nations". Eva had attended the last sessions of the 'Dialogues' with Hanna and Lili and shared their daily lives in the Ravensbrück camp. Until now, little was known about the end of these two remarkable women. Here, their friend recounts their shocking agony, which makes this document all the more exceptional.