Chelmno, A Small Village in Europe: The First Nazi Mass Extermination Camp - Hardcover

Shmuel Krakowski

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9653083325 ISBN 13: 9789653083325

Publisher: Adama Books, 2009

Synopsis

This is the only study on Chelmno, the first death camp on Polish soil and the model for setting up the machinery of mass murder. Mass killings, mostly of Lodz Jews and Gypsies, began in December 1941 and continued until the Red Army liberated the camp in January 1945. Only three people survived Chelmno, and only a few who operated the death camp were ever brought to justice. Includes maps and black & white pictures from the era.

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About the Author

Shmuel Krakowski was born in Warsaw and moved with his family to Lodz as a child. During the Holocaust era, he was a member of the Communist youth movement in the Lodz ghetto and was interned in Auschwitz and Buchenwald. After the liberation, he served as an officer in the Polish Army. Krakowski earned his Ph.D. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He directed the Yad Vashem Archives for many years and was a researcher at the International Institute of Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem. Among his books: ''The War of the Doomed'' and ''Unequal Victims: Poles and Jews During World War Two.''

Edition details

• Publisher: Adama Books
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9653083325
• ISBN 13: 9789653083325
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256