A personal account by the Harvard Medical School lecturer and political activist traces his explorations into the psychological sources and consequences of some of the past half-century's most disturbing events as experienced by its victims and perpetrators.

An account of the struggle for survival faced by Miklos Hammer from his conscription in 1944 into a Hungarian Jewish forced labour camp, through his time in a ghetto to his eventual transportation to Birkenau, providing insight into the horrors of the camps. First published in 1995.