![]() Capesius was involved in all kinds of heinous activities while working at the infamous Auschwitz camp. ![]() The story revolves around a pharmacist named Victor Capesius. I call Patricia (aka Trisha) Posner “Detective Posner” because she was relentless in accumulating the salient details in telling a little known story. But I “live by faith and not sight” so the struggle for sanity in the interim is a daily battle. ![]() As a Christian, I find my sanity in the belief that God will one day make all things right. I’m glad I did, but these kinds of books make me terribly sad and cry for justice. For me, I kept avoiding books like Night by Elie Wiesel and Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl. Reading about the concentration camps is tough. With The Pharmacist of Auschwitz, both categories are true. If my marginal notes add up to at least half the number of pages, the book is either important (say something by Nietzsche whom I mightily disagree with), or a book that I appreciated very much. I then check out the total number of pages of the book. ![]() I have developed a “Moore’s Law of Reading” that helps me see whether a book was worth my time or not. ![]()
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