Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 025320884X ISBN 13: 9780253208842

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 1998

Synopsis

"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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Review:

Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp, edited by Yisrael Gutman and Michael Berenbaum, is probably the most comprehensive volume on Auschwitz in print. Essays by leading scholars from Europe, Israel, and the United States document the history of the camp, the technology and magnitude of the genocide that occurred there, profiles of the inmates and the Nazis who ran the camp (such as Joseph Mengele), the underground resistance that arose, and what the outside world knew about Auschwitz and when. It's not a book to read straight through because of the sheer volume of information (more than 600 pages of text) and the horror of its contents. But it's the best resource for answering a wide variety of questions about the camp, especially those raised by the many excellent memoirs by the survivors. --Michael Joseph Gross

Book Description:

A Selection of the Jewish Book Club

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 025320884X
• ISBN 13: 9780253208842
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 656
• Editor: Yisrael Gutman, Michael Berenbaum