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

Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser: Browning, Christopher R. 1944- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY [u.a.] : Norton, 2011
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.