The prisoners of Breendonk : personal histories from a World War II concentration camp
This absorbing and captivating nonfiction account (with never-before-published photographs) offers readers an in-depth anthropological and historical look into the lives of those who suffered and survived Breendonk concentration camp during the Holocaust of World War II".
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xi, 340 pages : illustrations (some colour), colour maps - Publisher Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2015]
- Copyright ©2015
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 24.99 |
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The Prisoners of Breendonk : Personal Histories from a World War II Concentration Camp
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Table of Contents
The Prisoners of Breendonk : Personal Histories from a World War II Concentration Camp
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| Map of Belgium during World War II | p. vi | |
| Definitions of Terms Used in This Book | p. ix | |
| Introduction | p. xii | |
| The First Prisoners: September-December 1940 | ||
| 1 | The Arrest of Israel Neumann | p. 8 |
| 2 | Building Breendonk | p. 15 |
| 3 | Facing the Wall | p. 24 |
| 4 | The First Prisoners of Room 1 | p. 34 |
| 5 | The Artist of Room 1 | p. 42 |
| 6 | Watching the Prisoners | p. 47 |
| 7 | The Zugfuhrer of Room 1 | p. 53 |
| 8 | A Day at Breendonk | p. 59 |
| The First Deaths: January-June 1941 | ||
| 9 | Changes | p. 72 |
| 10 | The First Escape | p. 77 |
| 11 | Despair | p. 84 |
| 12 | A Picture-Perfect Camp | p. 91 |
| Camp of the Creeping Death: June 1941-June 1942 | ||
| 13 | Operation Solstice | p. 100 |
| 14 | Prisoner Number 59 | p. 105 |
| 15 | A Substitution | p. 111 |
| 16 | The Rivals | p. 117 |
| 17 | The Plant Eaters | p. 124 |
| 18 | My 24, 1941 | p. 133 |
| 19 | The Hell of Breendonk | p. 139 |
| 20 | The First Transport | p. 146 |
| 21 | A Temporary Lull | p. 152 |
| A Second Camp: July-August 1942 | ||
| 22 | The Sammellager in Mechelen | p. 162 |
| 23 | Transport II to Auschwitz-Birkenau | p. 171 |
| Camp of Terror: September 1942-April 1944 | ||
| 24 | The Postal Workers of Brussels | p. 188 |
| 25 | The First Executions | p. 198 |
| 26 | The Arrestanten | p. 204 |
| 27 | The Bunker | p. 213 |
| 28 | January 6,1943 | p. 223 |
| 29 | The Winter of 1942-43 | p. 229 |
| 30 | Transport XX | p. 235 |
| 31 | The Chaplain of the Executions | p. 242 |
| 32 | Two Heroes of Breendonk | p. 248 |
| 33 | The Twelve from Senzeilles | p. 253 |
| The Many Endings of Auffanglager Breendonk: May 1944-May 1945 | ||
| 34 | Evacuating Breendonk | p. 261 |
| 35 | Journey from Mauthausen | p. 267 |
| 36 | End of the Supermen | p. 273 |
| 37 | The Final Transport from Neuengamme | p. 280 |
| After the War: 1945-Present | ||
| 38 | The War Crimes Trials | p. 290 |
| 39 | The Final Death | p. 298 |
| 40 | Breendonk Today | p. 303 |
| Afterword: What Happened to Some Breendonk Prisoners and Their Families | p. 312 | |
| Appendixes | ||
| 1 | Main Deportations from Auffangtager Breendonk | p. 319 |
| 2 | Deportations from SS-Sammellager Mechelen | p. 320 |
| Quotation Sources | p. 321 | |
| Bibliography | p. 327 | |
| Acknowledgments | p. 332 | |
| Illustration Credits | p. 335 | |
| Index | p. 337 |
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