The Most Terrible Place on Earth, In Auschwitz, the most dreadful place on earth, Eliezer Shimoni—known in Hungarian as Dezső Hauser—stood and asked the Creator: "Why me?" This question accompanied him throughout his life as he carried the memories of the Holocaust and the number seared into his arm. This book unfolds the extraordinary story of Eliezer Shimoni, who survived the Holocaust and its horrors. It is a tale of the immense inner strength required of him and all camp survivors to continue living, rebuild their lives, and bear witness for future generations—testimony to what must never be erased from history. From the deceptive calm before the storm in the town of Nyírbátor, Hungary, through the horrors of Auschwitz, the death marches, and Buchenwald, to the rebuilding of a new life in the State of Israel, this book narrates a harrowing and moving journey of one man who defied all odds and preserved his indomitable spirit.