Remembering survival
Subtitle: inside a Nazi slave-labor camp
By: Christopher R. Browning.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780393070194
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
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. The Jews of Wierzbnik; title: The prewar Jewish community of Wierzbnik-Starachowice; title: The outbreak of war; title: The early months of German occupation; title: The Judenrat; title: The German occupiers in Wierzbnik-Starachowice; title: Coping with adversity in Wierzbnik, 1940-1942; title: pt. 2. The destruction of the Wierzbnik ghetto; title: Wierzbnik on the eve of destruction; title: The Aktion, October 27, 1942; title: Into the camps; title: pt. 3. Terror and typhus : fall 1942-spring 1943; title: Personalities and structures; title: The typhus epidemic; title: The Althoff massacres; title: Tartak; title: pt. 4. Stabilization; title: The Kolditz era : summer-fall 1943; title: Jewish work; title: Food, property, and the underground economy; title: The Ukrainian guards; title: Poles and Jews; title: Children in the camps; title: Childbirth, abortion, sex, and rape; title: The Schroth era : winter-spring 1944; title: pt. 5. Consolidation, escape, evacuation; title: Closing Majówka and Tartak; title: The final days; title: From Starachowice to Birkenau; title: The Starachowice women and children in Birkenau; title: Escapees; title: pt. 6. Aftermath; title: Return to and flight from Wierzbnik; title: Postwar investigations and trials in Germany.