Research Catalog

Title

The Union Kommando in Auschwitz : the Auschwitz munition factory through the eyes of its former slave laborers / compiled, translated and edited by Lore Shelley.

Publication

Lanham, MD : University Press of America, 1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

Shelley, Lore, 1924-

Description

xviii, 421 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in the Shoah ; v. 13

Uniform Title

Studies in the Shoah ; v. 13.

Subjects

• Jews > Persecutions > Poland
• World War, 1939-1945 > Conscript labor > Poland
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Poland > Personal narratives
• Auschwitz (Concentration camp)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Salomea (Guta) Baum: Here One Does Not Say "Do Widzenia" Be Content That I Can Say Adieu -- 2. Martha Becher: What is Your Name? Martha Kadden. WHAT?! - Martha SARAH Kadden -- 3. Ruzena Holanova: The Forewoman of the Heeresabnahme -- 4. Gizella Mozes: Solidarity was Extremely Strong Among the Women of My Transport -- 5. Flora Neumann: We Should Squash You Like Cockroaches -- 6. Raizel Tabakman: My Husband, a Flitzer, was Gassed upon Arrival Together with All Other Flitzers -- 7. Dr. Inka Wajsbort: A Model Hell -- 8. Herta Fuchs: Camp Love will a Capital L. -- 9. Ada Halperin: I was Hoarse the Day I Auditioned to Sing for the Birkenau Orchestra -- 10. Betty Lissing: A Down's Syndrome Child as Savior -- 11. Lotte S: The Austrian Delegate to the Women's International Resistance Movement in Birkenau -- 12. Paula Stern: At Auschwitz, Ilse and I Vowed to Name Our First Daughter "Marion" and We Actually Did - They were Born Four Days Apart in 1947 --
• 13. Ella Shiber: "Dog, Tell the Jew..." -- 14. Eugene Langer: Don't Worry - You'll be Sentenced to Death in a Few Days -- 15. Ilse Michel: Working in the Gun Powder Room -- Unaware of the On-going Smuggling -- 16. Mala Weinstein: I Recruited Regina Safirsztajn and Estusia Wacjblum for the Gun Powder Smuggling -- 17. Dr. Israel Gutman: A Warschauer of the Ciechanow Group -- 18. Herman Haller: Smuggling Sausages from the SS-Kitchen -- 19. Samuel Kestenbaum: The Torah Demmands That Jewish Families Stay Together in Difficult Times -- 20. Yehuda Laufer: A Yeshiva Bocher Turned Resistance Fighter -- 21. Sandor Schwarcz: He Chose Death -- 22. Hedi Sinberger: A Relative of Theodore Herzl -- 23. Lidia Vago: "Get Up, You Sara, My Dog Has No Space" -- 24. Dr. Etelka Tusa and Judith Chirvasuta: Introductory Sabotage at the Press Machines -- 25. Lilo Gombos: You Damned Jewish Pig You Can't or You Won't? -- 26. Chaya Kroin: I Worked with Roza Robota in the Clothing Detail --
• 27. Clara Heymann: The Forewoman of the Cleaning Work Squad -- 28. Judith Newman: Tending to the Night Shift Casualities -- 29. Dr. Jacques Stroumza: The Fiddler of Birkenau -- 30. Mira Schick: One of the Three Yugoslav Musketeers -- 31. Halina Olomucki: Painting was My Weapon of Survival -- 32. Raya Kagan: The Investigation as Seen by an Inmate of The Political Section -- 33. Noah Zabludowicz: A Comrade of the Hashomer Hatzair Talks About Roza Robota -- 34. Maria Oyrzynska: The Hanging Witnessed by a Polish Political Prisoner -- 35. Maria Cige: I Fulfilled Estusia's Last Wish -- 36. Dr. Erich Kulka: Reflections Regarding Research on the Resistance of Jewish Women Prisoners at the Union factory in Anschwitz -- App. A Sworn Statement by Paul Ortmann of the Krupp Factory Document: NIK 12846 -- App. B Monthly Bills for the Union Factory -- App. C Mira Schick's Union insignia -- App. D Synopsis of Major Dates and Events Referred to by Participants -- App. E Maps and Plans of Auschwitz.

ISBN

• 0761801944 (cloth)
• 0761801952 (pbk)

LCCN

95045494

OCLC

• 33335352
• ocm33335352

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries