Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp

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Yisrael Gutman, Michael Berenbaum
Indiana University Press, 1998 - History - 656 pages

"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.

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Contents

AuschwitzAn Overview YISRAEL GUTMAN
5
The System of Prisoner Exploitation FRANCISZEK PIPER
34
The Satellite Camps SHMUEL KRAKOWSKI
50
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About the author (1998)

Yisrael Gutman is Professor Emeritus of Jewish History at Hebrew University and former Director of the Research Center, Yad Vashem.
Michael Berenbaum is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation and former Director of the United States Holocaust Research Institute.

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