Auschwitz - Grosswerther - Gunskirchen

Neander, Joachim
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Title Auschwitz - Grosswerther - Gunskirchen : a nine months' odyssey through eight Nazi concentration camps.
Host Item Yad Vashem Studies 28 (2000) 287-310
Description A case study of a group of female laborers (294 on 15 March 1945) who had been interned in various Nazi camps. These women, mainly Jews from Hungary, after a selection in Auschwitz-Birkenau in July-August 1944, were sent to the Zillerthal-Erdmannsdorf labor camp in Silesia - some of them straight from Birkenau, others through some other camps. From there, in March 1945, they were taken to Grosswerther, a satellite camp of Dora-Mittelbau. In April 1945 they were transferred to Mauthausen, where they were liberated by the Americans. What the survivors of this trek note as the worst part of their experience is not the hard labor, the insufficient food, their illnesses, and the Allies' air raids, but the brutality of the SS camp guards. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
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Language English
Credits באדיבות יש ושם – רשות הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה Courtesy of Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
National Library system number 990002596060705171
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באדיבות יש ושם – רשות הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה Courtesy of Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

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