Auschwitz: 1270 To the Present - Softcover

Deborah Dwork

Softcover

ISBN 10: 039331684X ISBN 13: 9780393316841

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1997

Synopsis

No symbol of the Holocaust is more profound than Auschwitz. How could such an ordinary town become a site of such terror? Who conceived, created, and constructed the camp? This unprecedented history reveals how an unremarkable Polish village was transformed into a killing field. 200 photos & architectural plans.

About this title

From the Publisher:

The Rose Professor of Holocaust History at Clark University, Debrah Dwork is the first full-time endowed professor of Holocaust studies in the United States. Robert Jan van Pelt is a professor of cultural history in the architecture school at the University of Waterloo in Canada.

About the Author:

Winner of the 1996 National Jewish Book Award. No symbol of the Holocaust is more profound than Auschwitz. But, despite the infamy of the place, the crushing numbers of dead, the overwhelming scale of the crime, and the vast abandoned site of chimneys and rusting barbed wire isolate Auschwitz from us. How could an ordinary town become a site of such terror? Why was this particular town chosen? Who conceived, created, and constructed the camp? This unprecedented history reveals how an unremarkable Polish village was transformed into a killing field. Using architectural designs and planning documents recently discovered in Poland and Russia and over 200 illustrations, Auschwitz: 1270 to the Present traces the successive stages of how Auschwitz became the focus of a Germanized Poland and the epicenter of the Final Solution.

About this edition

• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 039331684X
• ISBN 13: 9780393316841
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 472