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The druggist of Auschwitz : a documentary novel / Dieter Schlesak ; translated from the German by John Hargraves.

Publication | Library Call Number: PT2680.L43 C3713 2011

"A harrowing novel about surviving in Auschwitz and the nature of evil"--Provided by publisher.

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Uniform Title: Capesius, der Auschwitzapotheker. English
Format: Book
Author/Creator: Schlesak, Dieter, 1934-
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011
Locale: Romania
Sighișoara
Poland
Oświęcim
Language: English
Edition: 1st American ed

Physical Description: 374 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents: The eyewitness
The Auschwitz dispensary
The German obsession with racial "purity" and the German language as a cure
It was just love of order and sense of duty
Love in the death camp
My God, science!
Mussulmen, the undead of Auschwitz, and the suspension of time
The Sonderkommando uprising
The end.
Other Authors/Editors: Hargraves, John.
ISBN: 9780374144067
0374144060 (hbk.)
Notes: Translation of: Capesius, der Auschwitzapotheker.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-374).

The eyewitness -- The Auschwitz dispensary -- The German obsession with racial "purity" and the German language as a cure -- It was just love of order and sense of duty -- Love in the death camp -- My God, science! -- Mussulmen, the undead of Auschwitz, and the suspension of time -- The Sonderkommando uprising -- The end.
Subjects: Pharmacists--Romania--Sighișoara--Fiction.
Concentration camp inmates--Poland--Oświęcim--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland--Oświęcim--Fiction.
Capesius, Victor,--1907---Fiction.
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)--Officials and employees--Fiction.
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei.--Schutzstaffel--Fiction.
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