The Treblinka death camp : history, biographies, remembrance / by Chris Webb and Michal Chocolatý.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Webb, Chris (Historian), author.

Chocolatý, Michal, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Treblinka (Concentration camp)--History.

Treblinka (Concentration camp).

Treblinka (Concentration camp)--Biography.

History.

Local Subjects:

Treblinka (Concentration camp).

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

xviii, 463 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Stuttgart : Ibidem, [2014]

Summary:

A number of books have been written on the death camp of Treblinka, but The Treblinka Death Camp. History, Biographies, Remembrance is unique. Webb and Chocolaty present the definitive account of one of history's most infamous factories of death where approximately 800,000 people lost their lives. The Nazis who ran it, the Ukrainian guards and maids, the Jewish survivors and the Poles living in the camp's shadow-every angle is covered in this astonishingly comprehensive work. The book attempts to provide a Roll of Remembrance with biographies of the Jews who perished in the death camp as well as of those who escaped from Treblinka in individual efforts or as part of the mass prisoner uprising on August 2nd, 1943. It also includes unique and previously unpublished sketches of the camp's ramp area and gas chamber, drawn by the survivors. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I The hell called Treblinka 10

Chapter 1 Penal labor camp: Treblinka I 11

Chapter 2 Construction of the death camp: Treblinka II 19

Chapter 3 Initial phase under Dr. Eberl: July-August 1942 31

Chapter 4 Chaos and Reorganization 47

Chapter 5 Industrialized mass murder: September-December 1942 61

Chapter 6 Deceptions and diversions: Late 1942-early 1943 69

Chapter 7 Visit by the Reichsführer-SS: Orders to erase evidence of crimes 77

Chapter 8 Jewish work brigades 83

Chapter 9 The camp revolt: 2 August 1943 99

Chapter 10 The end of Treblinka and Aktion Reinhardt: August-November 1943 115

Part II Survivors, victims and perpetrators 124

Chapter 11 Interviews with Treblinka survivors 125

Chapter 12 Wartime reports about the death camp 169

Chapter 13 Transports and death toll 179

Chapter 14 Treblinka war crimes trials 195

Chapter 15 From Trawniki to Rreblinka 209

Chapter 16 The real 'Ivan the Terrible' 219

Chapter 17 Roll of Remembrance: Jewish survivors and victims 231

Chapter 18 The perpetrators 305.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783838205465

3838205464

OCLC:

863197438

Publisher Number:

99958677115