Remembering survival

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Remembering survival

inside a Nazi slave-labor camp

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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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W.W. Norton & Co.
Language
English
Pages
396

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Remembering survival: inside a Nazi slave-labor camp
2010, W.W. Norton & Co.
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Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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New York
Genre
Biography

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
940.53/1853845
Library of Congress
D805.P7 B76 2010

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xxii, 375 p.
Number of pages
396

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23677804M
ISBN 13
9780393070194
LCCN
2009034202
Goodreads
7140886

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