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Remembering survival: inside a Nazi slave-labor camp/

Main Author: Browning, Christopher R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York: W.W. Norton, 2011
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945 > Concentration camps > Poland > Starachowice
Forced labor > History > 20th century > Poland > Starachowice
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Poland > Starachowice
Jews > History > 20th century > Poland > Starachowice
Nazis > History > 20th century > Poland > Starachowice
Holocaust survivors > Biography > Poland
Wierzbnik (Starachowice, Poland) > History > 20th century > Starachowice
Starachowice (Poland) > History > 20th century
Wierzbnik (Starachowice, Poland)
Starachowice (Poland)
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. 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
  • pt. 2. The destruction of the Wierzbnik ghetto
  • Wierzbnik on the eve of destruction
  • The Aktion, October 27, 1942
  • Into the camps
  • pt. 3. Terror and typhus : fall 1942-spring 1943
  • Personalities and structures
  • The typhus epidemic
  • The Althoff massacres
  • Tartak
  • pt. 4. 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
  • pt. 5. Consolidation, escape, evacuation
  • Closing Majo?wka and Tartak
  • The final days
  • From Starachowice to Birkenau
  • The Starachowice women and children in Birkenau
  • Escapees
  • pt. 6. Aftermath
  • Return to and flight from Wierzbnik
  • Postwar investigations and trials in Germany
  • Conclusion.

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