Remembering survival : inside a Nazi slave-labor camp
Draws on the testimony of survivors of the Holocaust-era Starachowice slave-labor camps to examine the Jewish prisoners' fight for survival through a succession of brutal Nazi camp regimes
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Format: | Buch |
Sprache: | English |
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New York, NY [u.a.] : Norton,
2011
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Ausgabe: | 1. publ. as an paperback |
Schlagworte: | World War, 1939-1945 Forced labor Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Jews Nazis |
Umfang: | XXII, 375 S. |
Inhaltsangabe:
- pt. 1. The Jews of Wierzbnik
- The prewar Jewish community of Wierzbnik-Starachowice
- The outbreak of war
- The early months of German occupation
- The Judenrat
- The German occupiers in Wierzbnik-Starachowice
- Coping with adversity in Wierzbnik, 1940-1942
- pt. 2. The destruction of the Wierzbnik ghetto
- Wierzbnik on the eve of destruction
- The Aktion, October 27, 1942
- Into the camps
- pt. 3. Terror and typhus : fall 1942-spring 1943
- Personalities and structures
- The typhus epidemic
- The Althoff massacres
- Tartak
- pt. 4. Stabilization
- The Kolditz era : summer-fall 1943
- Jewish work
- Food, property, and the underground economy
- The Ukrainian guards
- Poles and Jews
- Children in the camps
- Childbirth, abortion, sex, and rape
- The Schroth era : winter-spring 1944
- pt. 5. Consolidation, escape, evacuation
- Closing Majówka and Tartak
- The final days
- From Starachowice to Birkenau
- The Starachowice women and children in Birkenau
- Escapees
- pt. 6. Aftermath
- Return to and flight from Wierzbnik
- Postwar investigations and trials in Germany
- Conclusion.