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    Auschwitz Camp of Death
    Auschwitz Camp of Death
    Auschwitz Camp of Death
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    Auschwitz Camp of Death

    By Underground Poland Speaks

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    Auschwitz: Camp of Death, originally published in 1944 as Oswiecim: Camp of Death, is one of the first accounts of the Auschwitz (Oswiecim in Polish) concentration camp available to war-time American readers. The book describes the prisoner selection and round-up process in Poland's cities and villages, transportation to Auschwitz, the daily degradations and struggle to survive, and finally, death in the gas chamber. As the author states: “In Auschwitz, wounds never heal.” Included are 2 illustrations and an appendix of known concentration camps in Poland (including names of special camps for clergy members, Jews, women, and children).
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEumenes Publishing
    Release dateDec 6, 2019
    ISBN9781839741081
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    Auschwitz Camp of Death - Underground Poland Speaks

    © EUMENES Publishing 2019, all rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted by any means, electrical, mechanical or otherwise without the written permission of the copyright holder.

    Publisher’s Note

    Although in most cases we have retained the Author’s original spelling and grammar to authentically reproduce the work of the Author and the original intent of such material, some additional notes and clarifications have been added for the modern reader’s benefit.

    We have also made every effort to include all maps and illustrations of the original edition the limitations of formatting do not allow of including larger maps, we will upload as many of these maps as possible.

    AUSCHWITZ — CAMP OF DEATH

    (Underground Report)

    Sponsored by

    NATIONAL C.I.O. WAR RELIEF COMMITTEE

    Auschwitz—Camp of Death was originally published in March 1944 as Oświęcim—Camp of Death by Poland Fights, New York. Frontispiece is the original cover by Teresa Zarnower.

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    TABLE OF CONTENTS

    Contents

    TABLE OF CONTENTS 5

    FOREWORD 6

    1. THE CAMP OF DEATH 8

    2. MANHUNTS 10

    3. SIGNS OF LIFE 12

    4. ON THE WAY 13

    5. GYMNASTICS 15

    6. WOUNDS NEVER HEAL 17

    7. ARBEIT MACHT FREE 19

    8. NIGHTS GRANT NO RELIEF 21

    9. BASEMENTS AND LOFTS 23

    10. ESCAPE 26

    11. THE IMPATIENT ONES 28

    ANNEX: NETWORK OF SLAVE CAMPS IN POLAND 29

    ILLUSTRATIONS 35

    REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER 38

    FOREWORD

    For more than four years, Poles—men, women, and children, old and young, of all classes and professions—have been abused and tortured with the utmost wantonness and brutality by the German invaders of Poland. Whoever, today or in the future, speaks of the travail of humanity during these grief-stricken and tragedy-marred war years, must certainly pay humble and profound tribute, to the people of Poland who have suffered at the hands of the Gestapo, of despoilers of their culture and traditions, of economic bandits, and in the bestiality of prisons and’ concentration camps.

    The Camp of Death is the moving and almost incredible story of Oświęcim concentration camp. The account was written under the tension of the vibrant poignancy that is an inseparable part of the miseries Poland has endured. It was written by a Polish Underground Labor historian, experienced in the underground struggle, who drew his material from actual contact with persons who underwent, and saw others suffer, the things that he describes. As the writer says, The Camp of Death was to be a compilation of the viciousness of Nazism as seen at Oświęcim, so that all who read might understand and make a just evaluation of that which Poland faces, of the problem of ridding all Europe of a scourge that gives rise to such things as Oświęcim.

    While some who read this account may spend hours of unrest and anguish when they think of it, this story, nonetheless, deserves reading, for it tells, only too well, that which might have overrun Europe, and eventually the world, had it been allowed to fester and spread without opposition.

    In another sense, The Camp of Death is a memorial cut out of the heart of living Poland. No one, of whatever race, creed, or class, of whatever shade of political and social

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