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Author:

Browning, Christopher R.

Title:

Remembering survival : inside a Nazi slave-labor camp / Christopher R. Browning.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

W.W. Norton & Co.,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xxii, 375 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Starachowice.--Starachowice.
Forced labor--Starachowice--Starachowice--History--20th century.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Starachowice.--Starachowice.
Jews--Starachowice--Starachowice--History--20th century.
Nazis--Starachowice--Starachowice--History--20th century.
Wierzbnik (Starachowice, Poland)--History--20th century.
Starachowice (Poland)--History--20th century.
Holocaust survivors--Starachowice--Starachowice--Biography.
Wierzbnik (Starachowice, Poland)--Biography.
Starachowice (Poland)--Biography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-362) and index.

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.

ISBN:

0393070190 (hardcover)
9780393070194 (hardcover)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)317919861

LCCN:

2009034202

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

ZRPA475 -- Galva Public Library (Galva)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

AXPF626 -- Oskaloosa Public Library (Oskaloosa)

EWPB745 -- Ruthven Public Library (Ruthven)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)