At the terrible heart of the modern age lies Auschwitz. In a total inversion of earlier hopes about the use of science and technology to improve, extend, and protect human life, Auschwitz manipulated the same systems to quite different ends. In Sybille Steinbacher's terse, powerful new book, the reader is led through the process by which something unthinkable to anyone on earth in the 1930s had become a sprawling, industrial reality during the course of the Second World War. How Auschwitz grew and mutated into an entire dreadful city, how both those who managed it and those who were killed by it came to be in Poland in the 1940s, and how it was allowed to happen, is something everyone needs to understand.
Principal sections of the book address the institutional history of the camp, the technology and dimensions of the genocide carried out there, the profiles of the perpetrators and the lives of the inmates, underground resistance and escapes ...
dernourished , and thirty pounds lighter than before his arrest , Michal refused to discuss any details of his imprisonment in the German concentration camp in Dachau . One could see that his six months ' imprisonment had left visible ...
As well as being a searing narrative of everyday life in the camp, and the organization and working of the gas chambers, it constitutes Levi's first lucid attempts to come to terms with the raw horror of events that would drive him to ...
An inspiring true story of hope and survival, this is the testimony of a boy who was imprisoned in Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen and Buchenwald and recorded his experiences through words and color drawings.
Hermann Langbein was allowed to know and see extraordinary things forbidden to other Auschwitz inmates.
Originally published in the early 1960s, I Escaped from Auschwitz is the striking autobiography of none other than Rudolf Vrba himself.
Tells of the hideous experiments performed on Jewish victims at the infamous Nazi concentration camp
The clock was ticking on the Nazi plan to annihilate the last group of the Hungarian Jewry.
The USA Today Bestseller An extraordinary novel of hope and heartbreak, this is a story about a family separated by the Holocaust and their harrowing journey back to each other.
Maps covering Auschwitz and Birkenau explain the layoutThis book is shocking proof of the scale of the Holocaust.