ISBN:
9780393070194
,
9780393338874
,
0393338878
Language:
English
Pages:
XXII, 375 S.
,
Ill., Kt.
Edition:
1. publ. as an paperback
Year of publication:
2011
DDC:
940.53185
Keywords:
World War, 1939-1945 Concentration camps
;
Forced labor History 20th century
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews History 20th century
;
Nazis History 20th century
;
Wierzbnik (Starachowice, Poland) History 20th century
;
Starachowice (Poland) History 20th century
;
Wierzbnik (Starachowice, Poland) Biography
;
Starachowice (Poland) Biography
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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
Description / 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 -- Conclusion.
Note:
Enth. Literaturangaben
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