Met lit. opg. 192 p., [16] p. pl : ill. ; 22 cm

Includes references.

Stanislaw Gwizdka is a survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

xii, 180 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Literaturverz. S. 199 - 202 XV, 202 S. Ill., graph. Darst. 22 cm

Collectie 270c: Proces Eichmann

Met lit. opg.

Lit. opg.: p. 397-403.-Met reg. 416 p. : ill., portr. ; 22 cm

263 p. : ill.

Claude Lanzmann was born in Paris to a Jewish family that immigrated to France from Eastern Europe. He attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. His family went into hiding during World War II. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in the Auvergne. Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed a 1960 antiwar petition. From 1952 to 1959 he lived with Simone ...

Bacherorscriptie Geschiedenis, Universiteit van Amsterdam. 42 pagina's. ; 30 cm.

Daniel Bennahmias was hardly more than a boy when he and his family were herded onto the death train that would transport them from their home in Greece to the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp, Birkenau. His parents were exterminated immediately upon arrival, but Danny managed to survive. Because of his strength, the youthful prisoner was recruited by the Germans to become a member of a Sonderkommando ...

Interview with Bernard Weber (Lemberg 25 March 1922). Weber survived Auschwitz-Birkenau where he witnessed the uprising in crematorium B. For several months he worked in the Sonderkommando that had to burn dead bodies: "Day and night the fire burned four, five metres above the chimney".

Presents a compact overview of the history of Auschwitz, pointing to all of its complex aspects. Describes the functioning of the Auschwitz concentration camp, focusing on its use for the exploitation of slave labor and for the annihilation of European Jewry. Deals with the establishment and organization of the main camp, tributary and labor camps (Birkenau, IG Farben, and Monowitz), murder experiments, ...

The Weichsel Union fuse factory was installed at Auschwitz in September 1943, after having been evacuated from Zaporozhe, Ukraine. Workers at the Union factory, the largest employer of female slave labor in Auschwitz, soon came to number ca. 2,500 and were known as the Union Kommando. Their work and living conditions were relatively good. The book comprises 36 memoirs of Jewish men and women, most ...

Contains interviews with seven survivors of the Sonderkommandos now living in Israel (Josef Sackar, Abraham and Shlomo Dragon, Jaacov Gabai, Eliezer Eisenschmidt, Shaul Chasan, Leon Cohen), who worked in the gas chambers and crematoria of Auschwitz-Birkenau. They describe their experiences under Nazi occupation in their home countries (Greece, Poland, and Belarus); their arrival in Auschwitz; the details ...

Manuscript segments, notes, copied research materials, and other documents related to historic research done by Tziporah Hager Weiss Halivni, pertaining to the Sonderkommando uprising at Auschwitz, as well as her own experiences at Auschwitz and other camps during the Holocaust. Included is an extensive collection of mimeographed documents supplied by Bureau 6, Police of Israel, of evidence and transcripts ...

Consists of one memoir, 30 pages, "Peter's Story: Surviving Auschwitz and a Death March," by Dr. Peter Ornstein, originally of Vienna, Austria. In his memoir, he describes wartime Vienna, being entrusted to neighbors as his mother and future stepfather had immigrated to China (with the intention that Peter and his two sisters would follow), and in 1939, to a convent when it became too dangerous. In ...

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