Remembering survival

inside a Nazi slave-labor camp

Remembering survival

inside a Nazi slave-labor camp
Christopher R Browning
Book - 2010

Employing the rich testimony of almost three hundred survivors of the slave-labor camps of Starachowice, Poland, Christopher R. Browning draws the experiences of the Jewish prisoners, the Nazi authorities, and the neighboring Poles together into a chilling history of a little-known dimension of the Holocaust. Combining harrowing detail and insightful analysis on the Starachowice camps and their role in the Holocaust, Browning<U+2019>s history is indispensable scholarship and an unforgettable story of survival.

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Main Author: Browning, Christopher R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2010.
Edition:1st ed.
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505 0 |a 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 -- The destruction of the Wierzbnik ghetto -- Wierzbnik on the eve of destruction -- The Aktion, October 27, 1942 -- Into the camps -- Terror and typhus : Fall 1942-Spring 1943 -- Personalities and structures -- The typhus epidemic -- The Althoff massacres -- Tartak -- 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 -- Consolidation, escape, evacuation -- Closing Majówka and Tartak -- The final days -- From Starachowice to Birkenau -- The Starachowice women and children in Birkenau -- Escapees -- Aftermath -- Return to and flight from Wierzbnik -- Postwar investigations and trials in Germany. 
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