485 days at Majdanek

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"In its first English translation, Jerzy Kwiatkowski's memoir of surviving a sixteen-month internment at Majdanek concentration camp forms a rich documentary record of one of the Third Reich's most horrific camps"--

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Full title :485 days at Majdanek / Jerzy Kwiatkowski ; introduction by Norman M. Naimark ; translation by Nicholas Siekierski and Witold Wojtaszko.

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Publication Date:©2021

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University
Place of Publication:Stanford, California
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2021

Notes

Translation of: 485 dni na Majdanku. Originally published: Lublin : Wydawnictwo Lubelskie, 1966.

The Physical Object

Description:xx, 471 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), portraits ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780817924140, 0817924140
oclc:on1192304015
LC Classification:D805.5.M35
Dewey Decimal:940.53/18092

Welcomed by crows -- I become a gardener -- Camp life -- My first whipping -- Sickness and disease -- A hand through the barbed wire -- Building the monument -- Thumann and the beatings -- Categories of prisoner -- Hunger and the jackals -- Organization of the camp -- The mausoleum and the turtle -- Homo homini lupus -- Peter Birzer -- The arrival of the Jews -- Herr Knips -- Food packages -- Finishing off the Jews -- The gallows and selections for the gas -- The golden calf -- Releases and contact with the free world -- Fluchtpunkte -- Killing the Effektenkammer Kommando -- The camp administration -- The move to Field 4 -- Fourteen thousand peasants -- Marmorstein -- Auf der Flucht erschossen -- Seeing my brother -- I get my Fluchtpunkt -- The plan to free the camp -- Lagersperre -- The massacre of seventeen thousand Jews -- The Gehenna in the Lagerschreibstube -- Typhus fever -- Hessel the fiddler -- Christmas Eve, 1943 -- The dead arrive -- Sexualnot -- Exekutiert -- Laurich, the "angel of death" -- They count us like gold, but treat us like shit -- Every SS man carries a baton in his bag -- The Revier -- Daily pensum -- Trips to the laundry -- Transports -- Thumann leads me to…

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Biographies Biography Camps de concentration nazis -- Pologne Concentration camp inmates -- Biography… Détenus de camp de concentration nazi -… Documents d'information Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Person… Informational works Kwiatkowski, Jerzy Majdanek (Concentration camp) Nazi concentration camp inmates Nazi concentration camp inmates -- Biog… Nazi concentration camps Nazi concentration camps -- Poland Personal narratives Poland Poland -- Lublin Political prisoners -- Biography. -- Po…