Language:
German
Year of publication:
2005
Titel der Quelle:
Dachauer Hefte; Studien und Dokumente zur Geschichte der nationalsozialistischer Konzentrationslager
Angaben zur Quelle:
21 (2005) 179-196
Keywords:
Jews Persecutions 1933-1939
;
History
;
Nazi concentration camps
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Based on German Jewish prisoners' reminiscences recorded soon after their release in 1938/39 (many of them immigrated to England and were recorded at the Wiener Library in London), as well as later published memoirs, describes the brutal and dehumanizing conditions experienced by the 26,000 Jews who were arrested during and immediately after the "Kristallnacht" pogrom and interned in Dachau, Buchenwald, or Sachsenhausen: the sadism of the SS, support given by political prisoners, and a shocking lack of solidarity among the Jews. Certain categories of prisoners were soon released, as were individuals who could show they had completed arrangements for emigration; none remained beyond May 1939. But many died, and the survivors were broken in health and spirit.
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