Feb 03, 2017 if you have the stomach for it, i highly recommend the book, inside the gas chambers eight months in the sondercommando of auschwitz written by holocaust survivor shlomo venezia. Instead of the 2000 calories people need to live, they were often given 200 calories a. Jul 12, 2015 one of the merits of kl a common abbreviation of konzentrationslager, or concentration camp is the way it captures the inexorable slide, over a 12year arc, from fierce repression and. Concentration camps the words concentration camp refers to a camp in which people are detained or confined, usually under harsh conditions and without regard to legal norms of arrest and imprisonment that are acceptable in a constitutional democracy. Yes, this is science fiction, but how fitting that the technology that gets the most attention here is a. Im not one to reread books, but this gem merits rereading and keeping in. Afterwards, he spent a year in england before immigrating to the united states in. These data indicate that the concentration of camp under basal conditions is 1. Even when they are at a loss for words, their struggle to find language to express the. Thus, while it can simply mean imprisonment, it tends to refer to preventive confinement rather than confinement after having been convicted of some crime.
Any visitor to the memorial site will find that the memorial site bookshop stocks two publications worthy of particular mention, both deal at length with the history of the former concentration camp. One concentration camp on the muslim list at subotica is, in effect, a transit centre for issuing papers. The holocaust was the systematic murder of europes jews by the nazis and their collaborators during the second world war. A memoir is 29 page memoir written by felix klein, originally of vienna, austria. The united states currently has over 100 concentration camps along the u. Although an impressive amount of books and articles has been published on the subject of the concentration camps over the last few decades, a new. Natzweiler concentration camp wwii teacher tour book. The nazis also enslaved and killed other groups who they perceived as racially, biologically or ideologically inferior or dangerous. The first concentration camps were established in 1933 for confinement of opponents of the nazi party. Concentration camps california owens valley the evacuation and relocation of persons of japanese ancestry during world war ii. Notable inmates, anton constandse, helga deen, david koker. Nazi concentration camp photo book very graphic usm books. Cytoplasmic camp concentrations in intact cardiac myocytes.
List of books and articles about concentration camps online. The following report on the location of concentration, camps, signed by pohl, an ss general who was in charge of concentration camp labor policies, indicates the scope of. The concentration camps covered in this collection include the concentration and extermination camp auschwitz as well as the concentration and forced labor camps buchenwald, bunamonowitz alternatively auschwitz iii, dachau, schatzlar, and stutthof. Herzogenbusch concentration camp was a nazi concentration camp located in vught near the. Translations have been published in dutch, french, german, spanish, italian, and serbian the book is set during a war, projected from the vietnam war, in which the united. This ref erence information paper focuses on one of these, the mauthausen camp complex,describing materials found in over 95 series of textual, still picture, motionpicture, and cartographicrecords. Concentration camps in german, konzentrationslager. The camp layout, building design and organization was used as a model for all other camps. Prisoners at buchenwald concentration camp in nazi germany during world war ii.
Inside concentration camps ebook by maja suderland. Concentration camp project gutenberg selfpublishing. But he firmly believed that he had to show the camp in honest. Saidel terrace books finalist for the 2004 national jewish book awards in the categories of holocaust studies and womens studies. Hear seven survivors talk about and reflect on their experiences. One of the merits of kl a common abbreviation of konzentrationslager, or concentration camp is the way it captures the inexorable slide, over a 12year arc, from fierce repression and. France, natzweilerstruthof concentration camp record book. Buchenwald,dachau, flossenberg, nordhausen,and mauthausen. Concentration camp survivors share their stories imperial. Concentration camps at auschwitzbirkenau persecutions in german occupied territories paula nardai, a romni from oberwart, austria, recalls the fate of her family. Heinrich himmler, then chief of police of munich, officially described the camp as the first concentration camp for political prisoners. During the 20th century, the arbitrary internment of civilians by the state reached a climax with nazi concentration camps 19331945. Mans search for meaning is a 1946 book by viktor frankl chronicling his experiences as a prisoner in nazi concentration camps during world war ii, and describing his psychotherapeutic method, which involved identifying a purpose in life to feel positive about, and then immersively imagining that outcome. Read concentration camps in nazi germany the new histories by available from rakuten kobo.
Auschwitz, more than any other camp, however, has come to symbolize the concentrationcamp systemand, to a great extent, has become synonymous with the holocaust itself. Mans search for meaning experiences in a concentration camp. Encyclopedia of jewish and israeli history, politics and culture, with biographies, statistics, articles and documents on topics from antisemitism to zionism. Holocaust concentration camps, jewish history, books. The facilities have become controversial due to the trump regimes policy of separating migrant. Although the term concentration camp is often used as a term for all nazi camps, there were in fact several types of camps in the nazi system, of. Concentration camp, internment center for political prisoners and members of national or minority groups who are confined for reasons of state security, exploitation, or punishment, usually by executive decree or military order. Dec 18, 2009 hundreds of thousands of people from all continents visit dachau memorial site each year. How the nazi concentration camps worked the new yorker. This is a thoughtful novel that offers insights into human existence, and it will likely stay with readers long after they have turned the last page. Located initially in schirmeck near natzweiler, about 50 kilometers south of strassburg in alsace, it was established in 1940 as a forced labor camp, primarily for local opponents of the german occupation.
It became a training center for ss concentration camp guards. Most citizens, one hears, are fed up with books about the atrocities of the nazi concentration camps. Dachau was the first concentration camp of the nazi party. Dachau was the first regular concentration camp established by the german coalition government of the nazi party and the nationalist peoples party dissolved on 6 july 1933. The poet is sent to a secret camp where prisoners are given an. Camp concentration is one of those sf books that falls squarely into the literature category both for the eloquence of dischs writing and the timelessness of his ruminations on life and war. Conditions conditions at concentration camps were horrible. The natzweilerstruthof concentration camp called natzweiler for short, is the only camp built by the nazis on french soil.
Concentration camps fiction the enormous room along the lines of mid20thcentury editions. Much of camp concentration plays out as a commentary on the faust legend, and there is more aquinas, dante and bunyan here than physics, chemistry and biology. There are photos in this book covering many of the most notorious nazi konzentrationslager or concentration camps such as dachau, auschwitz birkenau, mauthausen, stutthof, majdanek, etc. From 19381939, klein was imprisoned in the dachau concentration camp and buchenwald concentration camp. Unlike most other books written by concentration camp survivors, mans search for meaning does not provide much detail about some of the most horrific aspects of camp life. A history of the nazi concentration camps, by nikolaus. Fictional, apparently a future work of fellini who was only 47 when camp concentration was written. Starting position on april 11, 1945, american troops entered buchenwald concentration camp. Prisoners were brought to natzweiler because of its abundance of natural resources that the prisoners were supposed to be mining. Camp vught national memorial nationaal monument kamp vught. Camp concentration is a 1968 science fiction novel by american author thomas m. There are many photographs taken inside concentration camps during the third reich, cans of zyklon poison gas pellets, corpses, crematoria, medical experiments, the rounding up of jews and others, personal. Using packs of visual and written sources, they piece together themselves what would have happened on arrival at auschwitzbirkenau.
Book of the dead buchenwald memorial gedenkstatte buchenwald. Concentration camp simple english wikipedia, the free. Americas detention centers added to wikipedia list of. You can book a tour and order a previsit education pack at the same time. Memoir, biography, historical fiction, photo essays, as well as poems and art work, tell the stories of concentration camp victims and survivors. A historical study of the manzanar war relocation center 2 volumes. Books of the dead, buchenwald and mittelbaudora camps. An internment camp for japanese people in canada, 1945. As a result, the term concentration camp today carries many of the connotations of extermination camp or death camp, and is sometimes used synonymously with these terms by people who are unaware of the original usage pre1933. After being serialized in new worlds in 1967, it was published by hartdavis in the uk in 1968 and by doubleday in the us in 1969.
A concentration camp or internment camp is a place where a government forces people to live without trial. Mans search for meaning is a 1946 book by viktor frankl chronicling his experiences as a prisoner in nazi concentration camps during world war ii, and. I read this book twice in two days, and have read it perhaps 4 times in the 30 years since. The notorious concentration camp system was a central pillar of the third reich, supporting the nazi war against politic.
Afterwards, he spent a year in england before immigrating to the united states in 1940. Afterwards, the stammlager was redesigned an expanded as a concentration camp to provide slave labour supporting the german war effort, with workshops run by the ss ostindustrie osti on the grounds of the prewar polish telecommunications equipment factory founded in the late 1930s. A concentration camp is where prisoners of war, enemy aliens, and political prisoners are detained and confined, typically under harsh conditions, or place or situation characterized by extremely harsh conditions. Venezia was a jew of italian descent who lived in thessaloniki. Persons are placed in such camps often without benefit of either indictment or fair trial. This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and if not signed in for advertising. Camp concentration by tom disch conceptual fiction. Jews, roma and sinti gypsies, poles, slavs, soviet prisoners of war, people with disabilities, political opponents, communists and trade. Translations have been published in dutch, french, german, spanish, italian, and serbian. Night by elie wiesel, the boy in the striped pajamas by john boyne, prisoner b3087 by alan gratz, the boy on the w. The concentration camp became the place where those metaphorical evils could be rendered concrete and visible.
Last friday, it contained eight turks charged with drugs trafficking. A cumulation of lessons, students finally arrive at the concentration camps. Instead, frankl almost skims over them, and then goes into depth exploring how the inmates responded to these situations. The following books on the world war ii internment experience of japanese americans are available in many libraries and bookstores. Transit, captivity, and witnessing in the holocaust new york and oxford, uk. The camp was known at that time as the stalag 359 poniatowa.
He knew that the book would shock some readers and provide others with gruesome fascination. Stanislav zamecniks,outstanding, that was dachau and the superb catalogue for the exhibition. Joan kaywells latest volume in her series adolescent literacy as a complement to the classics. Yes, this is science fiction, but how fitting that the technology that gets the most attention here is a discredited one, namely alchemy. In this lesson, you will learn about how auschwitz was used during world war ii, as well as the conditions that jewish people suffered in these camps.
Camps where the nazis imprisoned their victims without trial. A history of the nazi concentration camps 1st edition by wachsmann, nikolaus isbn. A history of the nazi concentration camps is a 2015 book by birkbeck college professor nikolaus wachsmann. According to frankl, the way a prisoner imagined the future affected his longevity. Here, behind barbed wire, were the traitors, bolsheviks, parasites, and jews who were. Books about concentration camps the holocaust history a. The notorious concentration camp system was a central pillar of the third reich, supporting the nazi war against political, racial and social outsiders whilst also intimidating the population at large. Concentration camps in nazi germany ebook by rakuten kobo. Notable books, diary of david koker guide camp vught national memorial. Their vivid, firsthand accounts heighten the reality of this experience in ways no thirdperson narrative can capture. The network of concentration camps nazi conquest was marked by the establishment of concentration camps over all of europe. The memorial book contains information on the victims of the buchenwald concentration camp.
List of books and articles about concentration camps. Aroneanu, a romanian who drew up the tables of atrocities for the nuremburg trials, compiled these accounts told by men and women survivors of concentration camps immediately after world war ii. Based on his own experience and the stories of his patients in concentration camps, frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can. Louis sacchetti is a poet and pacifist imprisoned for refusing.
Four days later, british troops reached bergenbelsen concentration camp. Internment is the imprisonment of people, commonly in large groups, without charges or intent to file charges, and thus no trial. The term is especially used for the confinement of enemy citizens in wartime or of terrorism suspects. This book is a translation of an oral history of the concentration camp experience recorded immediately after world war ii as told by men and women who endured it and lived to tell about it. Berghahn books, 2010, by simone gigliotti pdf with commentary at filed under. If you have the stomach for it, i highly recommend the book, inside the gas chambers eight months in the sondercommando of auschwitz written by holocaust survivor shlomo venezia. Dischs 1968 sciencespeculative fiction, alternate history set in the near future where the united states has declared war on the entire world and features main character louis sacchetti, a poet who resists the draft and chooses prison rather than the army.