Author:
Kwiatkowski, Jerzy, 1894-1980, author.
ImprintStanford, California : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, [2021]
Descriptionxx, 471 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm.
Note:Translation of: 485 dni na Majdanku. Originally published: Lublin : Wydawnictwo Lubelskie, 1966.
Note: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 the crematorium -- The best depart -- Shipping corpses -- The last of the Mohicans -- My typhus -- The air raid of the camp -- Convalescence -- Judgment day -- Hunting for Home Army soldiers -- Shortening the front -- Camp evacuation under Soviet fire -- A brickyard in Krasnik -- A shed in Skarzysko -- Zugang 190 513 in Auschwitz.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:"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."-- Provided by publisher.
