A narrow bridge to life
Subtitle: Jewish forced labor and survival in the Gross-Rosen camp system, 1940-1945
By: Bella Gutterman ; translated by IBRT.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781845452063
Subjects: Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- Poland.
Work titles: Gesher tsar el ha-ḥayim.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 270-281) and index.
Table of contents: value: Forced labor in Nazi Germany and the Nazi-occupied areas; value: The forced-labor system in eastern upper Silesia: the establishment of organization Schmelt (1940-1944); value: Forced-labor camps for Jews in lower Silesia and the Sudetenland (1940-1944); value: Phases in the development of the Gross-Rosen main camp (May 1940-October 1943); value: The first subcamps of Gross-Rosen; value: Deploying the network of camps; value: Labor camps in the Sudetenland; value: Code riese: the Führer's secret operation in the Eulen mountains; value: Administration of the Gross-rosen labor-camp complex; value: Survival in the Gross-Rosen labor camps; value: Women in the Gross-Rosen labor camps; value: Cultural and spiritual life in the Gross-Rosen labor camps; value: The last to be liberated; value: Liberation; value: Concluding remarks.