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The Operation Reinhard death camps : Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka
\"Under the code name Operation Reinhard, more than one and a half million Jews were murdered between 1942 and 1943 in the concentration camps of Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka, located in Nazi-occupied Poland. Unlike more well-known camps, which were used both for slave labor and extermination, these camps existed purely to murder Jews. Few victims survived to tell their stories, and the camps were largely forgotten after they were dismantled in 1943. The Operation Reinhard Death Camps bears eloquent witness to this horrific tragedy. This newly revised and expanded edition includes new material on the history of the Jews under German occupation in Poland; the execution and timing of Operation Reinhard; information about the ghettos in Lublin, Warsaw, Krakow, Radom, and Galicia; and updated numbers of the victims who were murdered during deportations. In addition to documenting the horror of the camps, Yitzhak Arad recounts the stories of those courageous enough to struggle against the Nazis and their \"final solution.\" Arad's work retrieves the experiences of Operation Reinhard's victims and survivors from obscurity and exposes a terrible chapter in humanity's history\" -- Provided by publisher.
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The order of terror
During the twelve years from 1933 until 1945, the concentration camp operated as a terror society. In this pioneering book, the renowned German sociologist Wolfgang Sofsky looks at the concentration camp from the inside as a laboratory of cruelty and a system of absolute power built on extreme violence, starvation, \"terror labor,\" and the business-like extermination of human beings.
Based on historical documents and the reports of survivors, the book details how the resistance of prisoners was broken down. Arbitrary terror and routine violence destroyed personal identity and social solidarity, disrupted the very ideas of time and space, perverted human work into torture, and unleashed innumerable atrocities. As a result, daily life was reduced to a permanent struggle for survival, even as the meaning of self-preservation was extinguished. Sofsky takes us from the searing, unforgettable image of the Muselmann--Auschwitz jargon for the \"walking dead\"--to chronicles of epidemics, terror punishments, selections, and torture.
The society of the camp was dominated by the S.S. and a system of graduated and forced collaboration which turned selected victims into accomplices of terror. Sofsky shows that the S.S. was not a rigid bureaucracy, but a system with ample room for autonomy. The S.S. demanded individual initiative of its members. Consequently, although they were not required to torment or murder prisoners, officers and guards often exploited their freedom to do so--in passing or on a whim, with cause, or without.
The order of terror described by Sofsky culminated in the organized murder of millions of European Jews and Gypsies in the death-factories of Auschwitz and Treblinka. By the end of this book, Sofsky shows that the German concentration camp system cannot be seen as a temporary lapse into barbarism. Instead, it must be conceived as a product of modern civilization, where institutionalized, state-run human cruelty became possible with or without the mobilizing feelings of hatred.
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A light in the darkness : Janusz Korczak, his orphans, and the Holocaust
\"From National Book Award finalist Albert Marrin comes the ... story of Janusz Korczak, the heroic Polish Jewish doctor who devoted his life to children, perishing with them in the Holocaust\"--Provided by publisher.
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Threat, Resistance, and Collective Action: The Cases of Sobibór, Treblinka, and Auschwitz
How and why do movements transition from everyday resistance to overt collective action? This article examines this question taking repressive environments and threat as an important case in point. Drawing on primary and secondary data sources, I offer comparative insights on resistance group dynamics and perceptions of threat in three Nazi death camps—Sobibór, Treblinka, and Auschwitz—between 1941 and 1945. Prisoners formed resistance groups at each camp, but collective revolt occurred in only certain cases: when the collective perception of threat at a given camp was viewed as both immediate and lethal. The interpretation of changing, threatening conditions, and an understanding of structural and interactional opportunities for group identity and tactical strategizing, are vital for understanding collective action in repressive environments. I conclude by discussing these lessons pertaining to threat and their implications for repressive contexts and broader social movement theorizing.
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German Extermination Camps on WWII Reconnaissance Photographs. Orthorectification Process for Archival Aerial Images of Cultural Heritage Sites
Aerial photographs taken over the past 80 years are often the only record of topography and events that have been destroyed or obliterated. However, the lack of camera certificates for many historical photographs, and their physical degradation, often makes it challenging to correct them geometrically. In this paper, we present the process of orthorectifying archival Luftwaffe aerial photographs of the area of the Treblinka extermination camp from May 1944, based on a computer vision-based process and preprocessing techniques. Low-cost and easily accessible software was used, which allowed for the generation of a fully metric orthophotomap in a repeatable and accurate way. This process can be repeated for archival aerial photographs from other dates (for the Treblinka camp) and other extermination camps (Belzec and Sobibor).
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The Liberating Experience: War Correspondents, Red Army Soldiers, and the Nazi Extermination Camps
The Soviet liberation of the eastern concentration camps has not attracted much attention from historians. By its nature, the liberation of one factory of death resembled the liberation of another. Jon Bridgman, the first historian to cover the pre- and post-liberation events, focused exclusively on the liberation of the concentration camps by American troops, demarcating the pre-liberation period from January to April 1945 and ending the post-liberation period in August 1945. Here, Kondoyanidi recreates the story of the Soviet soldiers and their reaction to the horror that they encountered in Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblinka, and Auschwitz. He also demonstrates that the existence of the German extermination camps and Soviet political propaganda fueled the soldiers' revenge, which by the end of the war had become routine.
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Fresh wounds : early narratives of Holocaust survival
Interviews collected in 1946 by Russian-born American psychologist David P. Boder.
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WAR-CRIMES TRIAL AWAITS NEW DATA
Israel's Supreme Court will hear new evidence in a few days asserting that John Demjanjuk, convicted and sentenced to death here as the monstrous \"[Ivan Marchenko] the Terrible\" of the Treblinka death camp, is the wrong man and the victim of \"a complete frame-up\" by United States and Israeli authorities. \"We're giving it a high priority,\" the Justice Department official said of the case, \"and we'll take whatever steps are appropriate when we complete the review.\" \"It is outrageous to say now that he was at Sobibor,\" he said. \"They have no evidence, and they have no case.\" Treblinka Guards' Accounts
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