Title & Author:

Anatomy of the Auschwitz death camp / Yisrael Gutman and Michael Berenbaum, editors ; editorial board, Yehuda Bauer, Raul Hilberg, and Franciszek Piper.

Publication:

Bloomington : Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. by Indiana University Press, ©1994.

Description:

xvi, 638 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Auschwitz : an overview / Yisrael Gutman -- The system of prisoner exploitation / Franciszek Piper -- The satellite camps / Shmuel Krakowski -- The number of victims / Franciszek Piper -- Auschwitz and the "final solution" / Raul Hilberg -- A site in search of a mission / Robert-Jan Van Pelt -- Gas chambers and crematoria / Franciszek Piper -- The machinery of mass murder at Auschwitz / Jean-Claude Pressac with Robert-Jan Van Pelt -- The plunder of victims and their corpses / Andrzej Strzelecki -- Historical-sociological profile of the Auschwitz SS / Aleksander Lasik -- Rudolf Höss : manager of crime / Aleksander Lasik-- Nazi doctors / Robert Jay Lifton and Amy Hackett -- The crimes of Josef Mengele / Helena Kubica -- The Auschwitz prisoner administration / Danuta Czech -- Hospitals ; Women / Irena Strzelecka -- Children / Helena Kubica -- The family camp / Nili Keren -- Gypsies / Yehuda Bauer.
Hungarian Jews / Randolph L. Braham -- Auschwitz : a psychological perspective / Leo Eitinger -- The Auschwitz underground / Hermann Langbein -- Prisoner escapes / Henryk Swiebocki -- Diaries of the Sonderkommando / Nathan Cohen -- What was known and when / Martin Gilbert -- The Vrba and Wetzler Report / Miroslav Karny -- Why Auschwitz wasn't bombed / David S. Wyman -- Postwar prosecution of the Auschwitz SS / Aleksander Lasik -- The literature of Auschwitz / Lawrence Langer.

Summary:

Commissioned by the U.S. Holocaust Research Institute." ... 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, and what the outside world knew about Auschwitz and when. A major study of the design and construction of the gas chambers and crematoria reveals the economic competitiveness, bureaucratic struggles, and technological sophistication behind the manufacture of the machinery that was used to murder and incinerate thousands daily ..."

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0253326842
9780253326843
025320884X (pbk.)
9780253208842 (pbk.)

Subject:

Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Auschwitz (Camp de concentration)
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Poland.
Auschwitz (Poland : Concentration Camp)
Holocauste, 1939-1945 Pologne.
Concentratiekampen.
Holocaust.
World War, 1939-1945 Concentration camps.
Auschwitz (Poland : Concentration camp)
Poland

Added entries:

Gutman, Israel.
Berenbaum, Michael, 1945-
Mazal Holocaust Collection.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
U.S. Holocaust Research Institute.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 115911
Call No.: ID PLS D805.P7.A53; ID:95-B1023
Status: Available