The prisoners of Breendonk : personal histories from a World War II concentration camp, by James M. Deem with additional photography by Leon Nolis

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The prisoners of Breendonk : personal histories from a World War II concentration camp, by James M. Deem with additional photography by Leon Nolis

Title remainder

personal histories from a World War II concentration camp

Statement of responsibility

by James M. Deem with additional photography by Leon Nolis

Instantiates

• The prisoners of Breendonk : personal histories from a World War II concentration camp

Publication

• Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015

Copyright

• ©2015

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-331) and index

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volume

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rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

Part 1. The first prisoners: September-December 1940 -- The arrest of Israel Neumann -- Building Breendonk -- Facing the wall -- The first prisoners of Room 1 -- The artist of Room 1 -- Watching the prisoners -- The Zugführer of Room 1 -- A day at Breendonk -- Part 2. The first deaths: January-June 1941 -- Changes -- The first escape -- Despair -- A picture-perfect camp -- Part 3. Camp of the creeping death: June 1941-June 1942 -- Operation Solstice -- Prisoner number 59 -- A substitution -- The rivals -- The plant eaters -- July 24, 1941 -- The hell of Breendonk -- The first transport -- A temporary lull -- Part 4. A second camp: July-August 1942 -- The Sammellager in Mechelen -- Transport II to Auschwitz-Birkenau -- Part 5. Camp of terror: September 1942-April 1944 -- The postal workers of Brussels -- The first executions -- The Arrestanten -- The bunker -- January 6, 1943 -- The winter of 1942-43 -- Transport XX -- The chaplain of the executions -- Two heroes of Breendonk -- The twelve from Senzeilles -- Part 6. The many endings of Auffanglager Breendonk: May 1944-May 1945 -- Evacuating Breendonk -- Journey from Mauthausen -- End of the supermen -- The final transport from Neuengamme -- Part 7. After the war: 1945-present -- The war crimes trials -- The final death -- Breendonk today -- Afterword: What happened to some Breendonk prisoners and their families -- Appendix 1. Main deportations from Auffanglager Breendonk -- Appendix 2. Deportations from SS-Sammellager Mechelen

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ocn904332570

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24 cm

Extent

xi, 340 pages

Isbn

9780544096646

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(hardcover)

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2015010722

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unmediated

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rdamedia

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illustrations, maps

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u926797