- Summary
- "In its first English translation, Jerzy Kwiatkowski's memoir of surviving a sixteen-month internment at Majdanek concentration camp forms a rich documentary record of one of the Third Reich's most horrific camps"-- Provided by publisher.
- Uniform Title
- 485 dni na Majdanku. English
- Variant Title
- Four hundred eighty-five days at Majdanek
- Series
- Hoover Institution Press publication ; No. 715
Hoover Institution Press publication ; 715.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Kwiatkowski, Jerzy, 1894-1980, author.
- Published
- Stanford, California : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, [2021]
©2021
- Locale
- Poland
Lublin
Pologne
- Contents
-
Welcomed by crows
I become a gardener
Camp life
My first whipping
Sickness and disease
A hand through the barbed wire
Building the monument
Thumann and the beatings
Categories of prisoner
Hunger and the jackals
Organization of the camp
The mausoleum and the turtle
Homo homini lupus
Peter Birzer
The arrival of the Jews
Herr Knips
Food packages
Finishing off the Jews
The gallows and selections for the gas
The golden calf
Releases and contact with the free world
Fluchtpunkte
Killing the Effektenkammer Kommando
The camp administration
The move to Field 4
Fourteen thousand peasants
Marmorstein
Auf der Flucht erschossen
Seeing my brother
I get my Fluchtpunkt
The plan to free the camp
Lagersperre
The massacre of seventeen thousand Jews
The Gehenna in the Lagerschreibstube
Typhus fever
Hessel the fiddler
Christmas Eve, 1943
The dead arrive
Sexualnot
Exekutiert
Laurich, the "angel of death"
They count us like gold, but treat us like shit
Every SS man carries a baton in his bag
The Revier
Daily pensum
Trips to the laundry
Transports
Thumann leads me to the crematorium
The best depart
Shipping corpses
The last of the Mohicans
My typhus
The air raid of the camp
Convalescence
Judgment day
Hunting for Home Army soldiers
Shortening the front
Camp evacuation under Soviet fire
A brickyard in Kraśnik
A shed in Skarżysko
Zugang 190 513 in Auschwitz.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Naimark, Norman M., writer of introduction.
Siekierski, Nicholas, translator.
Wojtaszko, Witold, translator.
- Notes
-
Translation of: 485 dni na Majdanku. Originally published: Lublin : Wydawnictwo Lubelskie, 1966.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Welcomed by crows -- I become a gardener -- Camp life -- My first whipping -- Sickness and disease -- A hand through the barbed wire -- Building the monument -- Thumann and the beatings -- Categories of prisoner -- Hunger and the jackals -- Organization of the camp -- The mausoleum and the turtle -- Homo homini lupus -- Peter Birzer -- The arrival of the Jews -- Herr Knips -- Food packages -- Finishing off the Jews -- The gallows and selections for the gas -- The golden calf -- Releases and contact with the free world -- Fluchtpunkte -- Killing the Effektenkammer Kommando -- The camp administration -- The move to Field 4 -- Fourteen thousand peasants -- Marmorstein -- Auf der Flucht erschossen -- Seeing my brother -- I get my Fluchtpunkt -- The plan to free the camp -- Lagersperre -- The massacre of seventeen thousand Jews -- The Gehenna in the Lagerschreibstube -- Typhus fever -- Hessel the fiddler -- Christmas Eve, 1943 -- The dead arrive -- Sexualnot -- Exekutiert -- Laurich, the "angel of death" -- They count us like gold, but treat us like shit -- Every SS man carries a baton in his bag -- The Revier -- Daily pensum -- Trips to the laundry -- Transports -- Thumann leads me to the crematorium -- The best depart -- Shipping corpses -- The last of the Mohicans -- My typhus -- The air raid of the camp -- Convalescence -- Judgment day -- Hunting for Home Army soldiers -- Shortening the front -- Camp evacuation under Soviet fire -- A brickyard in Kraśnik -- A shed in Skarżysko -- Zugang 190 513 in Auschwitz.
