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Auschwitz and Birkenau were separated from each other by about a 45-minute walk. Auschwitz was adapted to hold political prisoners in 1940 and evolved into a killing machine in 1941. Later that year a new site called Birkenau was found to extend the Auschwitz complex. Here a vast complex of buildings were constructed to hold initially Russian POWs and later Jews as a labour pool for the surrounding industries including IG Farben. Following the January 1943 Wannsee Conference, Birkenau evolved into a murder factory using makeshift houses which were adapted to kill Jews and Russian POWs. Later due to sheer volume Birkenau evolved into a mass killing machine using gas chambers and crematoria, while Auschwitz, which still held prisoners, became the administrative centre.The images show first Auschwitz main camp and then Birkenau and are carefully chosen to illustrate specific areas, like the Women’s Camp, Gypsy Camp, SS quarters, Commandant’s House, railway disembarkation, the ‘sauna’, disinfection area and the Crematoria. Maps covering Auschwitz and Birkenau explain the layoutThis book is shocking proof of the scale of the Holocaust.

2001 paperback. has slight edgewear to cover. otherwise clean

Important Holocaust memoir by writer with a track record.

Winner of the PEN Renato Poggioli Translation AwardAn Italian-Jewish journalist and schoolteacher who joined the Italian partisans in 1943, Liana Millu was arrested in 1944 and deported to Birkenau. The astonishing stories in this book tell of the women who lived and suffered alongside her.

Questions shape the Holocaust's legacy. 'What happened to ethics during the Holocaust? What should ethics be, and what can it do after the Holocaust?' loom large among them. Absent the overriding or moral sensibilities, if not the collapse or collaboration of ethical traditions, the Holocaust could not have happened. Its devastation may have deepened conviction that there is a crucial difference between right and wrong; its destruction may have renewed awareness about the importance of ethical standards and conduct. But Birkenau, the main killing center at Auschwitz, also continues to cast a disturbing shadow over basic beliefs concerning right and wrong, human rights, and the hope that human beings will learn from the past. This book explores those realities and the issues they contain. It does so not to discourage but to encourage, not to deepen darkness and despair but to face those realities honestly and in a way that can make post-Holocaust ethics more credible and realistic. The book's thesis is that nothing human, natural or divine guarantees respect for the ethical values and commitments that are most needed in contemporary human existence, but nothing is more important than our commitment to defend them, for they remain as fundamental as they are fragile, as precious as they are endangered.

In October of 1986, Ann Weiss entered a locked room at Auschwitz and came across an archive of over 2,400 photographs brought to the death camp by Jewish deportees from across Europe during the Holocaust. The photos, both candid snapshots and studied portraits, had been confiscated, but instead of being destroyed they were hidden at great risk and saved. In many cases these pictures are the only remnants left of entire families. In this revised edition of The Last Album there are over 400 of these remarkable photographs. The collection traces the story of how they arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau and how the author came to see them through what was essentially a fortuitous accident. In the years that followed, Weiss identified as many people and places in the photos as possible, traveling around the world to track down remaining family members and friends, and listening to stories of the inmates' lives before they were removed to the camp. Many of these accounts are transcribed here. Although the photographs in this book were found at a death camp, they are bursting with life. We see babies; parents with their children; groups of teenagers; people at work, at school, at home, on vacation—normal people leading normal lives. The photographs and reminiscences gathered here offer a rare and intensely personal view of who these individuals were and, most importantly, how they chose to remember themselves.

These astonishing real-life stories describe the women who lived and suffered alongside Liana Millu while she was imprisoned in a concentration camp. They are stories of violence and tragedy, but also stories of resistance and of the endurance of the human spirit.

These astonishing real-life stories describe the women who lived and suffered alongside Liana Millu while she was imprisoned in a concentration camp. They are stories of violence and tragedy, but also stories of resistance and of the endurance of the human spirit.

"Il fumo di Birkenau di Liana Millu è fra le più intense tesimonianze europee sul Lager femminile di Auschwitz-Birkenau: certamente la più toccante fra le testimonianze italiane. Consta di sei racconti, che tutti si snodano intorno agli aspetti più specificamente femminili della vita minimale e disperata delle prigioniere. La loro condizione era assai peggiore di quella degli unmini, e ciò per vari motivi: la minore resistenza fisica di fronte a lavori più pesanti e umilianti di quelli inflitti agli unomini; il tormento degli affetti familiari; la presenza ossessiva dei crematori, le cui ciminiere, sitaute nel bel mezzo del campo femminile, non eludibili, non negabili, corrompono col loro fumo empio i giorni e le notti, i momenti di tragua e di illusione, i sogni e le timide speranze (dalla Prefazione di Primo Levi)" from the back cover of the book.

2001 paperback. has slight edgewear to cover. otherwise clean

"Il fumo di Birkenau di Liana Millu è fra le più intense tesimonianze europee sul Lager femminile di Auschwitz-Birkenau: certamente la più toccante fra le testimonianze italiane. Consta di sei racconti, che tutti si snodano intorno agli aspetti più specificamente femminili della vita minimale e disperata delle prigioniere. La loro condizione era assai peggiore di quella degli unmini, e ciò per vari motivi: la minore resistenza fisica di fronte a lavori più pesanti e umilianti di quelli inflitti agli unomini; il tormento degli affetti familiari; la presenza ossessiva dei crematori, le cui ciminiere, sitaute nel bel mezzo del campo femminile, non eludibili, non negabili, corrompono col loro fumo empio i giorni e le notti, i momenti di tragua e di illusione, i sogni e le timide speranze (dalla Prefazione di Primo Levi)" from the back cover of the book.

This album, an extraordinary find, was originally discovered during the tumult of the first days after the liberation. It reveals how two SS photographers documented the arrival of shipments of Jews to the platform in the Birkenau concentration camp, the selection process, and their path to the gas chambers and the crematoria. The photographs also memorialize the piles of possessions left by the Jews which were sorted in the 'Canada' Barracks. They are accompanied by three articles that describe the development of the camp, the Holocaust of Hungarian Jewry, and the story of how the album was found; a fourth focuses on the camera as a historical tool. The 189 pictures, arranged in chronological order and reproduced in this album for the first time, are unusually powerful, not least because 70% of the people shown have been identified.

Edited by the State Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau in cooperation with the Documentary and Cultural Centre of German Sintas and Roms, Heidelberg. The history of the Gypsy camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau with abbreviations and explanations. Includes a camp register, index of names, index of places of birth, results of data analysis, survivor accounts, a chronology of the Campaign Against the Gypsies with documents and appendix.

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When Fania Fenelon was deported to Auschwitz, to the women's concentration camp of Birkenau, prospects were grim for her as they were for all people of Jewish blood. Only the strongest were able to survive - unless, like Fania, they were musical enough to find a place in the camp orchestra. The women's orchestra had been founded by the music-loving camp commandant. Its make-up was as extraordinary as its existence: ten violins, a flute, reed pipes, two accordions, three guitars, five mandolins, percussion and cymbals. No composer had ever envisaged such a combination, but with Mahler's niece conducting, and Fania's orchestration, they performed works by Puccini, Strauss, and Beethoven - even the forbidden Mendelssohn. They played marches for the work details, and for those about to be gassed; they gave concerts for the sinister Dr. Mengele and Heinrich Himmler. Fania Fenelon's story is a remarkable one - horrifying yet no hopeless because through all the hardships the girls of the orchestra lived, could laugh, and somehow survived. When she was transferred to Belsen, Fania slept in a tent only a few yards from Anne Frank; they shared the same indomitable courage and will to live, and Fania's memoirs are as haunting as "The Diary of Anne Frank".

The concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau was the site of the single largest mass murder in history. Over one million mainly Jewish men, women, and children were murdered in its gas chambers. Countless more died as a result of disease and starvation. 'Auschwitz Death Camp' is a chilling pictorial record of this infamous establishment. Using some 250 photographs together with detailed captions and accompanying text, it describes how Auschwitz evolved from a brutal labor camp at the beginning of the war into what was literally a factory of death. The images how people lived, worked and died at Auschwitz.The book covers the men who conceived and constructed this killing machine, and how the camp provided a vast labor pool for various industrial complexes erected in the vicinity. 'Auschwitz Death Camp' is shocking proof of the magnitude of horror inflicted by the Nazis on innocent men, women and children. Such evil should not be forgotten lest it reappear.

Hardcover. In the summer of 1942, twenty-two year-old Franci Rabinek Epstein arrived at Terezin, a concentration camp and ghetto forty miles north of her home in Prague. It would be the beginning of her six-year journey through several camps during the Second World War, from Terezin to Auschwitz-Birkenau, to forced labor in Hamburg and finally Bergen-Belsen. After the camp's liberation by the British in April 1945, she returned to Prague, a survivor. Franci was known in her group as the Prague seamstress. Her's is a story of ingenuity and endurance- she pretended to be an electrican to escape the Auschwitz selection, secretly fighting for the survival of her fellow inmates. Franci also gives voice to the darker side of women in war - rape and prostitiution - offering an insight into the resilience of people in an unknowable situation. The incredible memoir of the young Jewish seamstress who survived three Nazi concentration camps. Only 19 years old and newly married when the war, began, Franci survived Terezin, Auschtwitiz Bergen-Belsen. Publishing for the 75th liberation of Bergen-Belsen by the British in April 1945, this is an intense, moving, and ultimately hopeful account of those dark years. Franci records her experiences and observations in this candid and vivid diary - including the trauma of being a woman in war. This memoir was deemed too risque to be published in the 1970s, and is only now being introduced to readers by Franci's daughter, Helen Epstein. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

The Sonderkommando of Auschwitz-Birkenau consisted primarily of Jewish prisoners forced by the Germans to facilitate the mass extermination. Though never involved in the killing itself, they were compelled to be “members of staff” of the Nazi death-factory. This book, translated for the first time into English from its original Hebrew, consists of interviews with the very few surviving men who witnessed at first hand the unparalleled horror of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. Some of these men had never spoken of their experiences before. Over a period of years, Gideon Greif interviewed intensively all Sonderkommando survivors living in Israel. They describe not only the details of the German-Nazi killing program but also the moral and human challenges they faced. The book provides direct testimony about the “Final Solution of the Jewish Problem,” but it is also a unique document on the boundless cruelty and deceit practiced by the Germans. It documents the helplessness and powerlessness of the one-and-a-half million people, 90 percent of them Jews, who were brutally murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

In 1944, members of the Sonderkommando―the “special squads,” composed almost exclusively of Jewish prisoners, who ensured the smooth operation of the gas chambers and had firsthand knowledge of the extermination process―buried on the grounds of Auschwitz-Birkenau a series of remarkable eyewitness accounts of Nazi genocide. This careful and penetrating study examines anew these “Scrolls of Auschwitz,” which were gradually recovered, in damaged and fragmentary form, in the years following the camp’s liberation. It painstakingly reconstructs their historical context and textual content, revealing complex literary works that resist narrow moral judgment and engage difficult questions about the limits of testimony.