Anatomy of the Auschwitz death camp / Yisrael Gutman and Michael Berenbaum, editors ; editorial board, Yehuda Bauer, Raul Hilberg, and Franciszek Piper.
Imprint
Bloomington : Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. by Indiana University Press, c1994.
Commissioned by the U.S. Holocaust Research Institute.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Auschwitz : an overview / Yisrael Gutman -- The system of prisoner exploitation / Franciszek Piper -- The satellite camps / Shmuel Krakowski -- The number of victims / Franciszek Piper -- Auschwitz and the "final solution" / Raul Hilberg -- A site in search of a mission / Robert-Jan Van Pelt -- Gas chambers and crematoria / Franciszek Piper --The machinery of mass murder at Auschwitz / Jean-Claude Pressac with Robert-Jan Van Pelt -- The plunder of victims and their corpses / Andrzej Strzelecki -- Historical-sociological profile of the Auschwitz SS / Aleksander Lasik -- Rudolf Hoss : manager of crime / Aleksander Lasik --Nazi doctors / Robert Jay Lifton and Amy Hackett -- The crimes of Josef Mengele / Helena Kubica -- The Auschwitz prisoner administration / Danuta Czech -- Hospitals ; Women / Irena Strzelecka -- Children / Helena Kubica -- The family camp / Nili Keren -- Gypsies / Yehuda Bauer.
Hungarian Jews / Randolph L. Braham -- Auschwitz : a psychological perspective / Leo Eitinger -- The Auschwitz underground / Hermann Langbein -- Prisoner escapes / Henryk Swiebocki -- Diaries of the Sonderkommando / Nathan Cohen -- What was known and when / Martin Gilbert -- The Vrba and Wetzler Report / Miroslav Karny -- Why Auschwitz wasn't bombed / David S. Wyman -- Postwar prosecution of the Auschwitz SS / Aleksander Lasik -- The literature of Auschwitz / Lawrence Langer.