The prisoners of Breendonk : personal histories from a World War II concentration camp
This absorbing and captivating nonfiction account (with never-before-published photographs) offers readers an in-depth anthropological and historical look into the lives of those who suffered and survived Breendonk concentration camp during the Holocaust of World War II".
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- ISBN: 9780544096646
- Physical Description xi, 340 pages : illustrations (some colour), colour maps
- Publisher Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2015]
- Copyright ©2015
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 24.99 |
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The Prisoners of Breendonk : Personal Histories from a World War II Concentration Camp
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Table of Contents
The Prisoners of Breendonk : Personal Histories from a World War II Concentration Camp
Section | Section Description | Page Number |
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Map of Belgium during World War II | p. vi | |
Definitions of Terms Used in This Book | p. ix | |
Introduction | p. xii | |
The First Prisoners: September-December 1940 | ||
1 | The Arrest of Israel Neumann | p. 8 |
2 | Building Breendonk | p. 15 |
3 | Facing the Wall | p. 24 |
4 | The First Prisoners of Room 1 | p. 34 |
5 | The Artist of Room 1 | p. 42 |
6 | Watching the Prisoners | p. 47 |
7 | The Zugfuhrer of Room 1 | p. 53 |
8 | A Day at Breendonk | p. 59 |
The First Deaths: January-June 1941 | ||
9 | Changes | p. 72 |
10 | The First Escape | p. 77 |
11 | Despair | p. 84 |
12 | A Picture-Perfect Camp | p. 91 |
Camp of the Creeping Death: June 1941-June 1942 | ||
13 | Operation Solstice | p. 100 |
14 | Prisoner Number 59 | p. 105 |
15 | A Substitution | p. 111 |
16 | The Rivals | p. 117 |
17 | The Plant Eaters | p. 124 |
18 | My 24, 1941 | p. 133 |
19 | The Hell of Breendonk | p. 139 |
20 | The First Transport | p. 146 |
21 | A Temporary Lull | p. 152 |
A Second Camp: July-August 1942 | ||
22 | The Sammellager in Mechelen | p. 162 |
23 | Transport II to Auschwitz-Birkenau | p. 171 |
Camp of Terror: September 1942-April 1944 | ||
24 | The Postal Workers of Brussels | p. 188 |
25 | The First Executions | p. 198 |
26 | The Arrestanten | p. 204 |
27 | The Bunker | p. 213 |
28 | January 6,1943 | p. 223 |
29 | The Winter of 1942-43 | p. 229 |
30 | Transport XX | p. 235 |
31 | The Chaplain of the Executions | p. 242 |
32 | Two Heroes of Breendonk | p. 248 |
33 | The Twelve from Senzeilles | p. 253 |
The Many Endings of Auffanglager Breendonk: May 1944-May 1945 | ||
34 | Evacuating Breendonk | p. 261 |
35 | Journey from Mauthausen | p. 267 |
36 | End of the Supermen | p. 273 |
37 | The Final Transport from Neuengamme | p. 280 |
After the War: 1945-Present | ||
38 | The War Crimes Trials | p. 290 |
39 | The Final Death | p. 298 |
40 | Breendonk Today | p. 303 |
Afterword: What Happened to Some Breendonk Prisoners and Their Families | p. 312 | |
Appendixes | ||
1 | Main Deportations from Auffangtager Breendonk | p. 319 |
2 | Deportations from SS-Sammellager Mechelen | p. 320 |
Quotation Sources | p. 321 | |
Bibliography | p. 327 | |
Acknowledgments | p. 332 | |
Illustration Credits | p. 335 | |
Index | p. 337 |