Remembering Survival
Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp
Published on 10. January 2011
414 pages
978-0-393-07943-2 (ISBN)
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Winner of the National Jewish Book Award "An important, revealing story, exceptionally well told." —Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post
Employing the rich testimony of almost three hundred survivors of the slave-labor camps of Starachowice, Poland, Christopher R. Browning draws the experiences of the Jewish prisoners, the Nazi authorities, and the neighboring Poles together into a chilling history of a little-known dimension of the Holocaust. Combining harrowing detail and insightful analysis on the Starachowice camps and their role in the Holocaust, Browning's history is indispensable scholarship and an unforgettable story of survival.
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Christopher R. Browning, now retired from teaching, was the Frank Porter Graham Professor of History at the University of North Carolina and is the author of Ordinary Men, Remembering Survival, and other works of Holocaust history. He lives in Chapel Hill.
Content
- Intro
- ALSO BY CHRISTOPHER R. BROWNING
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- List of Illustrations
- Maps
- Occupied Poland, 1939-1944
- Wierzbnik-Starachowice: The Surrounding Region
- Wierzbnik-Starachowice: Ghetto, Factories, and Camps
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Names
- Introduction
- PART I THE JEWS OF WIERZBNIK
- 1 The Prewar Jewish Community of Wierzbnik-Starachowice
- 2 The Outbreak of War
- 3 The Early Months of German Occupation
- 4 The Judenrat
- 5 The German Occupiers in Wierzbnik-Starachowice
- 6 Coping with Adversity in Wierzbnik, 1940-1942
- PART II THE DESTRUCTION OF THE WIERZBNIK GHETTO
- 7 Wierzbnik on the Eve of Destruction
- 8 The Aktion, October 27, 1942
- 9 Into the Camps
- PART III TERROR AND TYPHUS: FALL 1942-SPRING 1943
- 10 Personalities and Structures
- 11 The Typhus Epidemic
- 12 The Althoff Massacres
- 13 Tartak
- PART IV STABILIZATION
- 14 The Kolditz Era: Summer-Fall 1943
- 15 Jewish Work
- 16 Food, Property, and the Underground Economy
- 17 The Ukrainian Guards
- 18 Poles and Jews
- 19 Children in the Camps
- 20 Childbirth, Abortion, Sex, and Rape
- 21 The Schroth Era: Winter-Spring 1944
- PART V CONSOLIDATION, ESCAPE, EVACUATION
- 22 Closing Majówka and Tartak
- 23 The Final Days
- 24 From Starachowice to Birkenau
- 25 The Starachowice Women and Children in Birkenau
- 26 Escapees
- PART VI AFTERMATH
- 27 Return to and Flight from Wierzbnik
- 28 Postwar Investigations and Trials in Germany
- 29 Conclusion
- Notes
