Auschwitz-The Nazi Civilization [Hardcover]

Lore Shelley (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0819184713 | ISBN-13: 978-0819184719 | Publication Date: March 12, 1992

This book describes some non-Birkenau-based women's work details through eyewitness accounts. The women worked in camp offices, SS-enterprises, and workshops catering to the comfort of the SS personnel. Some of the perpetrators appear in the accounts also, of course through the eyes of the inmates. The perpetrators are both male and female, and some of the relationships between them, both hierarchically and within the same level, contain important insights--how they lived, how they managed to survive, what were the main problems they had to confront in their struggle for bare existence. Their testimonies together make up a mosaic which has historical as well as psychological interest of the first degree.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Lore Shelley's book presents us with the Auschwitz inferno from an angle that is different and in a real sense, new.>>>> (Jewish Book News )

We owe a debt of thanks to Shelly for this significant addition to Holocaust literature. For those who would try to understand a time and place beyond understanding, she has given us a volume that will be read and appreciated so long as men and womenstrive to understand.>>> (The Northern California Jewish Bulletin )

...a valuable addition to Holocaust literature.>>>> (Pattern Of Prejudice )

It allows us a rare glimpse of the inner Nazi camps administration. In addition, the recollections of the survivors provide an important historical contribution to our knowledge of the period.>>>> (The Jerusalem Post )

It allows us a rare glimpse of the inner Nazi camps administration. In addition, the recollections of the survivors provide an important historical contribution to our knowledge of the period. (The Jerusalem Post )

Lore Shelley's book presents us with the Auschwitz inferno from an angle that is different and in a real sense, new. (Jewish Book News )

We owe a debt of thanks to Shelly for this significant addition to Holocaust literature. For those who would try to understand a time and place beyond understanding, she has given us a volume that will be read and appreciated so long as men and women strive to understand. (The Northern California Jewish Bulletin )

...a valuable addition to Holocaust literature. (Pattern Of Prejudice )

About the Author

Lore Shelley is the author of Secretaries of Death (Shengold, New York, 1986)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 306 pages
• Publisher: University Press Of America (March 12, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0819184713
• ISBN-13: 978-0819184719
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,257,670 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)