When the Germans invaded Hungary in 1944, Eugene Heimler was
twenty-one. His father, a socialist as well as a Jew, was arrested
by the Gestapo and never seen again. Mr. Heimler and his new wife
were taken from a Hungarian ghetto and deported in a cattle truck
to Auschwitz. His wife and family died there, but he survived to be
taken to Buchenwald and other camps in Germany. At the end of the
European war, he escaped and found his way back to his native
country. NIGHT OF THE MIST is an account of a young man's
experience under the Gestapo. It records the day-to-day events, the
miserable conditions of existence, the physical suffering endured
by the prisoners. But Eugene Heimler goes beyond a factual record
of events. With a gifted insight he describes the deeper effects of
suffering - on their minds. He writes not only of himself but of
many others imprisoned with him: of the doctor and the architect,
no longer middle-class gentlemen of authority, but near animals; of
the girl, once gentle and intelligent, now offering her diseased
body for a crust of bread; of the man who spent twelve years in
prison for the murder of his wife, and who in the inferno of a
concentration camp found meaning in life. Yet, though he knew the
worst of humanity, Heimler was able to regain his faith in God and
in the dignity of man. He does not hate; and the horror of his
experience is transcended by his compassion and deep understanding
of spiritual values. The true message of his book is not one of
horror, but of hope.
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