In 1943, amid the start of German occupation, Eddy de Wind worked as a doctor at Westerbork, a Dutch transit camp. While at Westerbork, he fell in love with a woman named Friedel, and they married; one year later, they were transported to Auschwitz, where his mother had already been sent. De Wind was forced to work as a medical assistant in one barrack, while Friedel at the mercy of Nazi experimentation in a nearby block. Soon after the camp was liberated by the Red Army, De Wind wrote this powerful memoir, which is at once a moving love story, a detailed portrayal of the atrocities of Auschwitz, and an intelligent consideration of the kinds of behavior—both good and evil—of which people are capable.