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Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Belah Guṭerman |
ISBN: | 9781845452063 1845452062 |
OCLC Number: | 87492949 |
Language Note: | English. |
Description: | ix, 290 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Forced labor in Nazi Germany and the Nazi-occupied areas -- The forced-labor system in eastern upper Silesia: the establishment of organization Schmelt (1940-1944) -- Forced-labor camps for Jews in lower Silesia and the Sudetenland (1940-1944) -- Phases in the development of the Gross-Rosen main camp (May 1940-October 1943) -- The first subcamps of Gross-Rosen -- Deploying the network of camps -- Labor camps in the Sudetenland -- Code riese: the Führer's secret operation in the Eulen mountains -- Administration of the Gross-rosen labor-camp complex -- Survival in the Gross-Rosen labor camps -- Women in the Gross-Rosen labor camps -- Cultural and spiritual life in the Gross-Rosen labor camps -- The last to be liberated -- Liberation -- Concluding remarks. |
Other Titles: | Gesher tsar el ha-ḥayim. |
Responsibility: | Bella Gutterman ; translated by IBRT. |
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"[The book] makes several important contributions to scholarship in the field of Holocaust studies...[Readers] will find a wealth of valuable information made accessible to the English reader for the first time." * American Historical Review "Bella Gutterman has discovered many primary sources and original documentation that we had not known about previously... adding considerably to knowledge of stages in German policy formation regarding forced labor, deepening our understanding of the tension between the desire to treat the prisoners as directed by Nazi ideology and wider discussion of the increased need to take advantage of their labor." * Dina Porat, Head of the Stephen Roth Institute, Tel Aviv University Read more...

