Auschwitz-The Nazi Civilization
Twenty-three Women Prisoners' Accounts
Format:Hardback
Publisher:University Press of America
Published:12th Mar '92
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This book describes some non-Birkenau-based women's work details through eyewitness accounts. The women worked in camp offices, SS-enterprises, and workshops catering to the comfort of the SS personnel. Some of the perpetrators appear in the accounts also, of course through the eyes of the inmates. The perpetrators are both male and female, and some of the relationships between them, both hierarchically and within the same level, contain important insights—how they lived, how they managed to survive, what were the main problems they had to confront in their struggle for bare existence. Their testimonies together make up a mosaic which has historical as well as psychological interest of the first degree.
Lore Shelley's book presents us with the Auschwitz inferno from an angle that is different and in a real sense, new. * Jewish Book World *
We owe a debt of thanks to Shelly for this significant addition to Holocaust literature. For those who would try to understand a time and place beyond understanding, she has given us a volume that will be read and appreciated so long as men and womenstrive to understand. * The Northern California Jewish Bulletin *
...a valuable addition to Holocaust literature. * Pattern Of Prejudice *
It allows us a rare glimpse of the inner Nazi camps administration. In addition, the recollections of the survivors provide an important historical contribution to our knowledge of the period. * gem *
It allows us a rare glimpse of the inner Nazi camps administration. In addition, the recollections of the survivors provide an important historical contribution to our knowledge of the period. * gem *
Lore Shelley's book presents us with the Auschwitz inferno from an angle that is different and in a real sense, new. * Jewish Book World *
We owe a debt of thanks to Shelly for this significant addition to Holocaust literature. For those who would try to understand a time and place beyond understanding, she has given us a volume that will be read and appreciated so long as men and women strive to understand. * The Northern California Jewish Bulletin *
...a valuable addition to Holocaust literature. * Pattern Of Prejudice *
ISBN: 9780819184719
Dimensions: 235mm x 155mm x 23mm
Weight: 585g
306 pages