The Nazi concentration camps : structure and aims, the image of the prisoner, the Jews in the camps : proceedings of the fourth Yad Vashem International Historical Conference, Jerusalem, January 1980 / editors, Yisrael Gutman, Avital Saf ; translations, Dina Cohen ... et al.].

Translation of: Maḥanot ha-rikuz ha-Natsiyim.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The concentration camps as part of the National-Socialist system of domination / Falk Pingel -- SS-police-concentration camp : from Dachau to Auschwitz / Shlomo Aronson -- Concentration camps as a tool of oppression in Nazi-occupied Europe / Czeslaw Madajczyk -- Jews in concentration camps in Germany prior to World War II / Leni Yahil -- Categories of camps : their character and role in the execution of the Final Solution of the Jewish Question / Aharon Weiss -- Forced labor and sabotage in the Nazi concentration camps / Krzysztof Dunin-Wasowicz -- Social stratification in the concentration camps / Yisrael Gutman -- Jewish tradition in the life of the concentration-camp inmate / Yaffa Eliach -- Medicalized killing in Auschwitz / Robert Jay Lifton -- Jews in the Mauthausen concentration camp / Benjamin Eckstein -- Auschwitz : the history and characteristics of the concentration and extermination camp / Hermann Langbein -- The Theresienstadt ghetto : its characteristics and perspective / Ruth Bondy -- Ghetto in an annihilation camp : Jewish social history in the Holocaust period and its ultimate limits / Otto Dov Kulka -- Bergen-Belsen, 1943-1945 / Eberhard Kolb -- Jewish prisoner uprisings in the Treblinka and Sobibor extermination camps / Yitzhak Arad -- Escapes of Jewish prisoners from Auschwitz-Birkenau and their attempts to stop the mass extermination / Erich Kulka -- The question of bombing Auschwitz / Martin Gilbert -- The death marches in the period of the evacuation of the camps / Shmuel Krakowski -- Jewish survivors in DP camps and She'erith Hapletah / Yehuda Bauer -- Nazi crime trials / Adalbert Rückerl -- Opening remarks / Zvi Winnik (chairman) -- The survivors search for meaning and identity / Hillel Klein -- Human reciprocity among the Jewish prisoners in the Nazi concentration camps / Shamai Davidson -- Holocaust themes : their expression in poetry and in the psychological conflicts of patients in psychotherapy / Dori Laub -- Holocaust traumatization : the transgenerational impact / Uriel Last and Hillel Klein -- The impact of Holocaust experience on families of survivors living in the United States / Yael Danieli -- Opening remarks / Chone Shmeruk (chairman) -- Boundaries of the present : two literary approaches to the concentration camps / Sidra Dekoven Ezrahi -- The case of Bruno Bettelheim and Lina Wertmüller's "Seven Beauties / Eli Pfefferkorn -- Facing the nightmare : Israeli literature on the Holocaust / Gershon Shaked.