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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Israel Gutman; Michael Berenbaum; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Research Institute. |
ISBN: | 9780253208842 025320884X |
OCLC Number: | 39132480 |
Notes: | Commissioned by the U.S. Holocaust Research Institute. |
Description: | xvi, 638 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Auschwitz : an overview / Yisrael Gutman -- The system of prisoner exploitation / Franciszek Piper -- The satellite camps / Shmuel Krakowski -- The number of victims / Franciszek Piper -- Auschwitz and the "final solution" / Raul Hilberg -- A site in search of a mission / Robert-Jan Van Pelt -- Gas chambers and crematoria / Franciszek Piper -- The machinery of mass murder at Auschwitz / Jean-Claude Pressac with Robert-Jan Van Pelt -- The plunder of victims and their corpses / Andrzej Strzelecki -- Historical-sociological profile of the Auschwitz SS / Aleksander Lasik -- Rudolf Höss : manager of crime / Aleksander Lasik -- Nazi doctors / Robert Jay Lifton and Amy Hackett -- The crimes of Josef Mengele / Helena Kubica -- The Auschwitz prisoner administration / Danuta Czech -- Hospitals ; Women / Irena Strzelecka -- Children / Helena Kubica -- The family camp / Nili Keren -- Gypsies / Yehuda Bauer -- Hungarian Jews / Randolph L. Braham -- Auschwitz : a psychological perspective / Leo Eitinger -- The Auschwitz underground / Hermann Langbein -- Prisoner escapes / Henryk Swiebocki -- Diaries of the Sonderkommando / Nathan Cohen -- What was known and when / Martin Gilbert -- The Vrba and Wetzler Report / Miroslav Karny -- Why Auschwitz wasn't bombed / David S. Wyman -- Postwar prosecution of the Auschwitz SS / Aleksander Lasik -- The literature of Auschwitz / Lawrence Langer. |
Responsibility: | Yisrael Gutman and Michael Berenbaum, editors ; editorial board, Yehuda Bauer, Raul Hilberg, and Franciszek Piper. |
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Filled with relevant illustrations and detailed notes, Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp is an indispensable guide to Auschwitz and all that is has come to represent. It is an important contribution to the body of work on the Holocaust, and a copy of this book should be added to every public and private library. * The Jewish Eye * Read more...
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