Olga Lengyel

Olga Lengyel was a Hungarian author and Holocaust survivor best known for her memoir Five Chimneys, which provides a harrowing account of her experiences in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during World War II. Born in 1908 in Cluj, Hungary (now Romania), she was the wife of Dr. Miklós Lengyel, a respected surgeon. When Nazi forces occupied Hungary in 1944, Olga, along with her husband, two sons, and her par...