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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. This is the diary of an unnamed twenty-year-old man who spent almost a year in the Auschwitz concentration camp. He was released in a hopeless condition, severely weakened, with a bruised kidney and suffering from extreme exhaustion.An eyewitness account, it describes the entire process: from accidental arrest in a street roundup, through detention, transport, and placement in the camp. The author presents living conditions, methods of torture, punishments, roll calls, hunger, and forced labour which, contrary to the well-known slogan above the gate, Arbeit macht frei ("work sets you free"), serves only as a means of degradation, senseless exhaustion, and humiliation of prisoners. He also depicts interpersonal relationships, showing examples of both heroic conduct and disgraceful behaviour.The text was developed by Halina Krahelska in her characteristic style of fictionalized reportage, strictly based on facts and testimonies. It was published anonymously in Warsaw in April 1942 by the Publishing House of the Propaganda Commission of the Office of Information and Propaganda of the Home Army Headquarters under the title Auschwitz: A Prisoner's Diary. Its purpose was to bear witness to the reality of the Nazi concentration camps. Certainly, one of the aims of the publication was to convey to broad segments of Polish society that people did not end up in the camps solely for offences against the occupying power or for involvement in the resistance. Rather, the camps were filled with people taken at random, demonstrating that they served as instruments of mass terror and that "not interfering" or avoiding anything disapproved of by the Germans offered no real protection. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. CONTENT WARNINGThis book contains graphic eyewitness testimony and historical photographs documenting acts of mass violence and human suffering. Some material may be disturbing to readers.Historical photographs included in this volume may be distressing.This book is intended for readers aged 18 and over. It is published solely for historical, educational, and scholarly purposes.Fritsch greeted arriving prisoners with the following speech: "I inform you that you have not come here to a sanatorium, but to a German concentration camp, from which there is no other exit than through the chimney (the crematorium). If someone does not like this, he may go at once to the wires (high voltage). If there are Jews in the transport, they have no right to live longer than two weeks; if there are priests, they may live one month; the rest three months." With particular sadism, Lagerfuehrer Fritsch introduced a starvation bunker for prisoners captured during escape attempts. In this cell, incidents of cannibalism occurred. A prisoner assigned to clean it described the following scene: "When the door was opened, a terrible stench of corpses burst forth. After my eyes adjusted to the darkness, I saw in the corner the corpse of a prisoner with his entrails torn out, and beside him, in a half-reclining position, another dead prisoner. In his hand he held the liver torn from the body of his deceased companion. Death overtook him at the moment of devouring the liver." This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. This is the diary of an unnamed twenty-year-old man who spent almost a year in the Auschwitz concentration camp. He was released in a hopeless condition-severely weakened, with a bruised kidney and extreme exhaustion.An eyewitness account, it describes the entire process: from accidental arrest in a street roundup, through detention, transport, and placement in the camp. The author presents living conditions, methods of torture, punishments, roll calls, hunger, and forced labour-which, contrary to the well-known slogan above the gate, Arbeit macht frei ("work sets you free"), serves only as a means of degradation, senseless exhaustion, and humiliation of prisoners. He also depicts interpersonal relationships, showing examples of both heroic conduct and disgraceful behaviour.The text was developed by Halina Krahelska in her characteristic style of fictionalized reportage, strictly based on facts and testimonies. It was published anonymously in Warsaw in April 1942 by the Publishing House of the Propaganda Commission of the Office of Information and Propaganda of the Home Army Headquarters under the title Auschwitz. A Prisoner's Diary. Its purpose was to bear witness to the reality of the Nazi concentration camps. Certainly, one of the aims of the publication was to convey to broad segments of Polish society that people did not end up in the camps solely for offenses against the occupying power or for involvement in the resistance. Rather, the camps were filled with people taken by chance-demonstrating that they served as instruments of mass terror and that "not interfering" or avoiding anything disapproved of by the Germans offered no real protection.Interestingly, the actual prisoner whose account forms the basis of this text survived. He was Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, who, according to his testimony, immediately-already in June 1942-joined the activities of the Union of Armed Struggle, the Front for the Rebirth of Poland, and the Council for Aid to Jews "Zegota." He later became a soldier of the Home Army and took part in the Warsaw Uprising. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. CONTENT WARNINGThis book contains graphic eyewitness testimony and historical photographs documenting acts of mass violence and human suffering. Some material may be disturbing to readers.Historical photographs included in this volume may be distressing.This book is intended for readers aged 18 and over. It is published solely for historical, educational, and scholarly purposes.Fritsch greeted arriving prisoners with the following speech: "I inform you that you have not come here to a sanatorium, but to a German concentration camp, from which there is no other exit than through the chimney (the crematorium). If someone does not like this, he may go at once to the wires (high voltage). If there are Jews in the transport, they have no right to live longer than two weeks; if there are priests, they may live one month; the rest three months." With particular sadism, Lagerfuehrer Fritsch introduced a starvation bunker for prisoners captured during escape attempts. In this cell, incidents of cannibalism occurred. A prisoner assigned to clean it described the following scene: "When the door was opened, a terrible stench of corpses burst forth. After my eyes adjusted to the darkness, I saw in the corner the corpse of a prisoner with his entrails torn out, and beside him, in a half-reclining position, another dead prisoner. In his hand he held the liver torn from the body of his deceased companion. Death overtook him at the moment of devouring the liver." This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…