| Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp Contributor(s): Gutman, Yisrael (Editor), Berenbaum, Michael (Editor) |
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ISBN: 025320884X ISBN-13: 9780253208842 Publisher: Indiana University Press OUR PRICE: $30.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1998 Annotation: Leading scholars from the united States, Israel, Poland, and other European countries provide a comprehensive account of what took place at the Auschwitz death camp. The book addresses the history of the camp, the technology and dimensions of the genocide carried out there, profiles of the perpetrators and the lives of inmates, underground resistance and escapes, and what the outside world knew about Auschwitz and when. 25 photos. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Holocaust - Religion | Judaism - General |
| Dewey: 940.531 |
| LCCN: 93045729 |
| Physical Information: 1.56" H x 6.09" W x 9.2" (2.00 lbs) 656 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1940's - Religious Orientation - Jewish - Topical - Holocaust |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This learned volume is about as chilling as historiography gets. --Walter Laqueur, The New Republic . . . a one-volume study of Auschwitz without peer in Holocaust literature. --Kirkus Reviews . . . a comprehensive portrait of the largest and most lethal of the Nazi death camps . . . serves as a vital contribution to Holocaust studies and a bulwark against forgetting. --Publishers Weekly More than a million people were murdered at Auschwitz, of whom 90 percent were Jews. Here leading scholars from around the world provide the first comprehensive account of what took place at Auschwitz. |