| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xxii, 375 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 Majówka 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. |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Poland -- Starachowice.
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Forced labor -- Poland -- Starachowice -- History -- 20th century.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Starachowice.
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Jews -- Poland -- Starachowice -- History -- 20th century.
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Nazis -- Poland -- Starachowice -- History -- 20th century.
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Wierzbnik (Starachowice, Poland) -- History -- 20th century.
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Starachowice (Poland) -- History -- 20th century.
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Holocaust survivors -- Poland -- Starachowice -- Biography.
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Wierzbnik (Starachowice, Poland) -- Biography.
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Starachowice (Poland) -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
9780393070194 hardcover |
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0393070190 hardcover |
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