Met index, literatuuropgave. XXIV, 179 pagina's : illustraties ; 23 cm

Bevat ook nederlandse tekst. 199 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Lit. opg.: p. 223. 223 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index. viii, 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

An account of the author's imprisonment in Royallieu, concentration camp at Compiègne. On cover: 3. mille. 246 p., 2 l. front. (port.) 19 cm.

The Janowska camp complex in Lwów, which was responsible for the murder of at least 80.000 Jews, is of particular interest due to its hybrid nature as slave labor camp, transit camp, and dedicated killing site. This article details and analyzes these connected functions, arguing that this unique combination of activities reveals many new insights into our typology of camps as well as the role of Janowska ...

Describes the internment camp in Les Milles in the south of France, based on testimonies of survivors (or their families) and archival material. Set up in September 1939, it served at first as a military camp. After 1940 it was a camp for foreigners who sought asylum in France, including Jews. Between 3 August-10 September 1942 it served as a transit camp for Jews sent to Auschwitz via Drancy. Includes ...

A history of the camp of Drancy, based on eyewitness testimonies, especially by Paul Zuckermann, Nissim-Noël Calef, and Georges Kohn, as well as material from newly opened archives. Between 1941-44, 67,000 of the 75,000 Jews deported from France, most of them foreigners, passed through Drancy. 80,000 additional Jews spent shorter or longer periods interned there. Describes the organization of the camp ...

With a foreword by Compton Mackenzie. Yugoslav refugees in Italy :The story of a transit camp /

Surveys Nazi persecution of Jews and other groups, particularly the racial legislation, forced sterilizaton (including medical experiments in mass sterilization in Auschwitz), and the "euthanasia" program. Notes that the methods used to murder the mentally and physically handicapped were later applied to Jews. States that the known detention and death centers numbered 10,005 and divides them into 16 ...

Discusses the Nazi regime's interest in exchanging foreign citizens for Germans held in Allied or neutral countries. Since there were not enough foreign citizens with unexceptionable papers, the Foreign Office proposed the establishment of a special camp for Jews with doubtful papers, certificates for Palestine, or connections abroad, or who could be exchanged for foreign currency. Bergen-Belsen opened ...

"The Nine follows the true story of the author's great aunt Helene Podliasky, who led a band of nine female resistance fighters as they escaped a German forced labor camp and made a ten-day journey across the front lines of WWII from Germany back to Paris. The nine women were all under thirty when they joined the resistance. They smuggled arms through Europe, harbored parachuting agents, coordinated ...

Thomas Blatt grew up in the Polish village of Izbica, which was used by the Geman Nazis as a transit ghetto for Jews on their way to the extermination camps in Eastern Poland. He was sixteen years old when he arrived at Sobibor with his parents and his brother. All three were immediately sent to the gas chambers, but Thomas himself was selected for forced labour. He had to cut women's hair before they ...

"What is Holocaust literature? When does it begin and how is it changing? Is there an essential core of diaries, eyewitness accounts of the concentration camps, tales of individual survival in hiding? Is it the same everywhere: in the West as in the East, in Australia as in the Americas, in poetry as in prose? Is this literature sacred and sui generis, or can it be studied in the light of other literatures? ...