Overview
- Summary
- Interviews with historians, including architectural theorist Robert Jan van Pelt, on the growing body of evidence found in architectural plans of the systematic designing and building of gas chambers by the German army at Auschwitz and Birkenau during World War II. The involvement of the Topf und Söhne firm and the SS Neubauleitung is particularily examined. Includes interviews with camp survivors.
- Other Title
- Nova (Television program)
- Format
- Video
- Published
- [Boston, MA] : Nova, [1994 :] Released by WGBH Educational Foundation, [1995]
©1994 - Locale
- Poland
- Notes
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Digital reproductions are made available for private study, scholarship, and research purposes only.
Director/writer, Mike Rossiter ; producer, Isabelle Rosin ; editor, Jane Benett.
Stacy Keach, narrator.
VHS.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Additional Form
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Electronic version(s) available internally at USHMM.
- Physical Description
- 1 videocassette (55 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 1/2 in.
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- Digital reproductions are made available for private study, scholarship, and research purposes only.
- Conditions on Use
- Subject to copyright restrictions.
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects
- Nazi concentration camps--Poland--Design and construction. Internment camps--Poland--Design and construction. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Poland. World War, 1939-1945--Engineering and construction. Architecture--Poland--History--20th century. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. Video recordings. Personal narratives. Birkenau (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Waffen-SS--Buildings. Firma J.A. Topf & Söhne.
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