Physical Description
xvi, 638 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
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 / Irena Strzelecka
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 excapes / 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.
Other Authors/Editors
Gutman, Israel.
Berenbaum, Michael, 1945-
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Research Institute.
ISBN
025320884X
Notes
Commissioned by the U.S. Holocaust Research Institute.
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 / Irena Strzelecka -- 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 excapes / 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.
