Between the Wires

Waitman Wade Beorn

Buch

The Janowska Camp and the Holocaust in LVIV

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Publisher:: Nebraska, 08/2024
Binding:: Gebunden
Language:: Englisch
ISBN-13:: 9781496237590
Item number:: 11551226
Volume:: 400 Pages
Weight:: 753 g
Format:: 229 x 152 mm
Thickness:: 25 mm
Release date:: 1.8.2024
Note: Caution: Product is not in German language

Blurb

Finalist for the 2024 National Jewish Book Award

Between the Wires tells for the first time the history of the Janowska camp in Lviv, Ukraine. Located in a city with the third-largest ghetto in Nazi-occupied Europe, Janowska remains one of the least-known sites of the Holocaust, despite being one of the deadliest. Simultaneously a prison, a slave labor camp, a transit camp to the gas chambers, and an extermination site, this hybrid camp played a complex role in the Holocaust.

Based on extensive archival research, Between the Wires explores the evolution and the connection to Lviv of this rare urban camp. Waitman Wade Beorn reveals the exceptional brutality of the SS staff alongside an almost unimaginable will to survive among prisoners facing horrendous suffering, whose resistance included an armed uprising. This integrated chronicle of perpetrators, victims, and bystanders follows the history of the camp into the postwar era, including attempts to bring its criminals to justice.