TY  - BOOK
AU  - Browning,Christopher R.
TI  - Remembering survival: inside a Nazi slave-labor camp 
SN  - 9780393338874 (pbk.)
AV  - D805.P7 B76 2011
U1  - 940.53/1853845 22
PY  - 2011///, c2010
CY  - New York
PB  - Norton
KW  - Starachowice (Concentration camp)
KW  - sears
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Concentration camps
KW  - Poland
KW  - Starachowice
KW  - Forced labor
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
KW  - Jews
KW  - Nazis
KW  - Holocaust survivors
KW  - Biography
KW  - Prisoners and prisons
KW  - Starachowice (Poland)
KW  - Holocaust, 1939-1945
KW  - Wierzbnik (Starachowice, Poland)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-362) and index; 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; Publisher's Weekly, November 2009; Booklist, December 2009; Choice, June 2010; Kirkus Review, November 2009; Multicultural Review, June 2010; Publisher's Weekly; Booklist; Choice; Adult; Follett Library Resources; Adult
N2  - Discusses the experience of Jewish prisoners in a Nazi work camp, chronicling their sacrifices to protect their families and the Nazi guard's policies, which led to arbitrary killings in the Polish city of Starachowice and the later acquittal, in 1972, of Walter Becker, the German chief of police in Starachowice
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