Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp
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"An important, revealing story, exceptionally well told."—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post The Washington Post - Jonathan Yardley The literature of the Holocaust and Nazi Germany is so vast as to defy comprehension, yet there remain aspects of the subject that are insufficiently covered or not covered at all. Christopher Browning's fine, harrowing Remembering Survival points us in yet another little-charted direction. It is the history of a Nazi slave-labor camp at Starachowice, in central Poland, where between 1942 and 1944 thousands of Jews were forced to work…to produce munitions for the Nazi war machine…Browning is keenly sensitive to the unreliability of memory, especially memory of distant events, so as he stitches together the story of Starachowice he is especially careful to distinguish between reliable and unreliable evidence. There can be no doubt, however, of the essential truth of this story, a small one when viewed against everything else that happened in that dreadful time, but an important and revealing one, exceptionally well told in Remembering Survival.
List of IllustrationsMap - Occupied Poland, 1939-1944Map - Wierzbnik-Starachowice: The Surrounding RegionMap - Wierzbnik-Starachowice: Ghetto, Factories, and CampsIntroduction 1Pt. I The Jews of Wierzbnik1 The Prewar Jewish Community of Wierzbnik-Starachowice 152 The Outbreak of War 243 The Early Months of German Occupation 304 The Judenrat 345 The German Occupiers in Wierzbnik-Starachowice 406 Coping with Adversity in Wierzbnik, 1940-1942 51Pt. II The Destruction of the Wierzbnik Ghetto7 Wierzbnik on the Eve of Destruction 658 The Aktion, October 27, 1942 839 Into the Camps 101Pt. III Terror and Typhus: Fall 1942-Spring 194310 Personalities and Structures 11311 The Typhus Epidemic 12112 The Althoff Massacres 12513 Tartak 135Pt. IV Stabilization14 The Kolditz Era: Summer-Fall 1943 14115 Jewish Work 15316 Food, Property, and the Underground Economy 15917 The Ukrainian Guards 16818 Poles and Jews 17219 Children in the Camps 17620 Childbirth, Abortion, Sex, and Rape 18521 The Schroth Era: Winter-Spring 1944 192Pt. V Consolidation, Escape, Evacuation22 Closing Majowka and Tartak 20723 The Final Days 21824 From Starachowice to Birkenau 22625 The Starachowice Women and Children in Birkenau 23926 Escapees 246Pt. VI Aftermath27 Return to and Flight from Wierzbnik 25928 Postwar Investigations and Trials in Germany 27029 Conclusion 291Notes 301Index 363
