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Remembering survival : inside a Nazi slave-labor camp
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- Summary
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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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- Creator
- Christopher R. Browning
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2010]
- ©2010
- Physical Details
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- xxii, 375 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780393070194, 0393070190
- OCLC
- ocn317919861
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-362) and index.
- 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
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Poland -- Starachowice.
- Forced labor -- Poland -- Starachowice -- History -- 20th century.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Starachowice.
- Jews -- Poland -- Starachowice -- History -- 20th century.
- Nazis -- Poland -- Starachowice -- History -- 20th century.
- Holocaust survivors -- Poland -- Starachowice -- Biography.
- Wierzbnik (Starachowice, Poland) -- History -- 20th century.
- Starachowice (Poland) -- History -- 20th century.
- Wierzbnik (Starachowice, Poland) -- Biography.
- Starachowice (Poland) -- Biography.