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Inside the Concentration Camps: Eyewitness Accounts of Life in Hitler's Death Camps 1st Paperback Editio edition

by Thomas R. Whissen (Author)
3.3 3.3 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
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This book is a translation of an oral history of the concentration camp experience recorded immediately after World War II as told by men and women who endured it and lived to tell about it. Their vivid, firsthand accounts heighten the reality of this experience in ways no third-person narrative can capture. Even when they are at a loss for words, their struggle to find language to express the unspeakable is, in itself, mute testimony to the ordeal etched forever on their memories. The testimonies are arranged to reflect the chronology of camp experience (from deportation to liberation), the living conditions of camp life (from malnutrition to forced labor), and the various methods of abuse and extermination (from castration to gassing and cremation). The chronology gives the accounts a narrative flow and even creates a certain suspense, especially as liberation nears and hopes rise.
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  1. ISBN-10
    0275954471
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0275954475
  3. Edition
    1st Paperback Editio edition
  4. Publisher
    Praeger
  5. Publication date
    September 24, 1996
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    6.14 x 0.47 x 9.21 inches
  8. Print length
    200 pages
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Aroneanu, a Romanian who drew up the tables of atrocities for the Nuremburg trials, compiled these accounts told by men and women survivors of concentration camps immediately after World War II. Translated by Whissen (Wright State Univ.), this oral history is organized chronologically by camp experience from deportation to liberation. Topics include internment, camp regulations, life in the camps (e.g., labor, sanitary conditions), medical experiences, execution, and the number of dead. The book also includes a list of camps, command posts, and prisons that were used as places of incarceration. The reader will gain from this compilation a vivid and horrifying sense of what life was like in a concentration camp. Recommended for World War II collections.?Mary F. Salony, West Virginia Northern Community Coll. Lib., Wheeling
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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"Aroneanu, a Romanian, was assigned the task of drawing up the first lists of Nazi atrocities in 1945 for use at the Nuremberg war crime trials. This book is the result of his research. The 100 eyewitness testimonies by concentration camp survivors are intermixed, arranged by subject matter to reflect the chronology of the camps from deportations to liberation... [The survivors] speak of unbelievable horror... No other work documents these crimes against humanity as vividly and powerfully as this one."-Booklist

?[T]his oral history is organized chronologically by camp experience from deportation to liberation. Topics include internment, camp regulations, life in the camps (e.g., labor, sanitary conditios), medical experiences, execution, and the number of dead. The book also includes a list of camps, command posts, and prisons that were used as places of incarceration. The reader will gain from this compilation a vivid and horrifying sense of what life was like in a concentration camp. Recommended for World War II collections.?-Library Journal

?Aroneanu, a Romanian, was assigned the task of drawing up the first lists of Nazi atrocities in 1945 for use at the Nuremberg war crime trials. This book is the result of his research. The 100 eyewitness testimonies by concentration camp survivors are intermixed, arranged by subject matter to reflect the chronology of the camps from deportations to liberation... [The survivors] speak of unbelievable horror... No other work documents these crimes against humanity as vividly and powerfully as this one.?-Booklist

"ÝT¨his oral history is organized chronologically by camp experience from deportation to liberation. Topics include internment, camp regulations, life in the camps (e.g., labor, sanitary conditios), medical experiences, execution, and the number of dead. The book also includes a list of camps, command posts, and prisons that were used as places of incarceration. The reader will gain from this compilation a vivid and horrifying sense of what life was like in a concentration camp. Recommended for World War II collections."-Library Journal

"[T]his oral history is organized chronologically by camp experience from deportation to liberation. Topics include internment, camp regulations, life in the camps (e.g., labor, sanitary conditios), medical experiences, execution, and the number of dead. The book also includes a list of camps, command posts, and prisons that were used as places of incarceration. The reader will gain from this compilation a vivid and horrifying sense of what life was like in a concentration camp. Recommended for World War II collections."-Library Journal

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Praeger; 1st Paperback Editio edition (September 24, 1996)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 200 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0275954471
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0275954475
  • Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1400L
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.14 x 0.47 x 9.21 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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cdibiase@jsucc.jsu.edu
5.0 out of 5 stars Translation and Oral History at its Very Best
Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 1998
It is hard to believe that this book is only now available in English. Consisting entirely of eye-witness accounts of life in German concentration camps, the work served as an important source of evidence during the Nazi trials. The accounts, however, are compiled so that they form a narrative that is roughly chronological, beginning with the experience of deportation and ending with the grim business of counting bodies. In between lies the whole experience of the prisoner: the forced and brutalizing work, the whimsical or studied methods of torture, the grisly medical experiments, the routine executions, the gasing of ever larger groups, the ovens that burned night and day, and constantly, throughout the story, the capricious beating, kicking and whipping. Primo Levi, who wrote so eloquently about the danger of forgetting, would have appreciated this book.
And Thomas Whissen, the translator, has performed an admirable and selfless job. He has rendered this story in a language that is so clear, so transparent, that one forgets that one is reading words on a page. The book leaves one feeling bruised and battered, and not quite willing to go back into a world of comforts. It leaves one deeply suspicious of humanity. And this perhaps is a good thing.
Incidentally, it is difficult to imagine a book better suited for university courses on the holocaust.
Carmine Di Biase, Ph.D. (cdibiase@jsucc.jsu.edu)
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1.0 out of 5 stars Waste of money
Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2017
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These are worth no money. They curl down on the top two corners leaving the majority of the seat unprotected. They need more structure to them.
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Patricia A. Martin
3.0 out of 5 stars THE TRUTH IS NOT ALWAYS AN EASY READ:
Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2013
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I should have known, very -very hard subject to read... This book
was suggest to ME as a read by a retreat facilitator ...... I have to
read it in short-time.... For sure a lesson, the lesson we never let
this happen again ......
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Andrew M. Fribley
1.0 out of 5 stars misleading use of testimony
Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2005
This book reads like a single history...beware. The author has taken original testimony from many people and woven them together as though they were from a single source (some pages actually have between 15 and 20 references). Appears to be the same sort of propaganda used to create the anti-semetism that fueled the holocaust. Very disappointing.
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Steve Gowler
3.0 out of 5 stars Use with caution
Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2001
I purchased this book hoping I might be able to use it in the course I teach on the Holocaust. It includes a vast and rich body of testimony that would be invaluable if it were placed in context. However this work is a list of statements, usually identified only by an individual's name. For most of the statements, it is impossible to determine which camp is being described. This book suggests that there was a general concentration camp experience, and that it is not necessary to distinghish one camp from the other. I believe that premise is problematical on both counts. Even the photographs have generic captions that do not identify the camps they depict. While the first-person accounts of the Nazi order of terror are often gripping, this book should be used with caution by those seeking a precise historical understanding of the Holocaust.
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Louis Boyd
1.0 out of 5 stars if you want to see some examples read the other reviews I won't bother to list them here as some good examples have already been covered by other reviewers
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 25, 2018
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There's a lot of stuff in this book that isn't backed up by evidence, if you want to see some examples read the other reviews I won't bother to list them here as some good examples have already been covered by other reviewers.
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