Remembering Survival Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp

Name: Remembering Survival Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp
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ISBN: 9780393070194

ISBN-10: 0393070190

ISBN-13: 9780393070194

Edition: 2010

Authors: Christopher R. Browning

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In 1972 the Hamburg State Court acquitted Walter Becker, the German chief of police in the Polish city of Starachowice, of war crimes committed against Jews. Thirty years before, Becker had been responsible for liquidating the nearby Jewish ghetto, sending nearly 4,000 Jews to their deaths at Treblinka and 1,600 to slave-labor factories. The shocking acquittal, delivered despite the incriminating eyewitness testimony of survivors, drives this authorâ€™s inquiry. Drawing on the rich testimony of survivors of the Starachowice slave-labor camps, Christopher R. Browning examines the experiences and survival strategies of the Jewish prisoners and the policies and personnel of the Nazi guard.…

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List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/18/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.60" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

Christopher R. Browning is professor of history at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. He is a contributor to Yad Vashem's official twenty-four-volume history of the Holocaust and the author of two earlier books on the subject.



List of Illustrations


Maps


Occupied Poland, 1939-1944


Wierzbnik-Starachowice: The Surrounding Region


Wierzbnik-Starachowice: Ghetto, Factories, and Camps


Acknowledgments


A Note on Names


Introduction



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



The Destruction of The Wierzbnik Ghetto



Wierzbnik on the Eve of Destruction



Tht Aktion, October 27, 1942



Into the Camps



Terror and Typhus: Fall 1942-Spring 1943



Personalities and Structures



The Typhus Epidemic



The Althoff Massacres



Tartak



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



Consolidation, Escape, Evacuation



Closing Majï¿½wka and Tartak



The Final Days



From Starachowice to Birkenau



The Starachowice Women and Children in Birkenau



Escapees



Aftermath



Return to and Flight from Wierzbnik



Postwar Investigations and Trials in Germany



Conclusion


Notes


Index