Tag: Auschwitz

Saving Lives in Auschwitz The Prisoners’ Hospital in Buna-Monowitz


Free Download Ewa K. Bacon, "Saving Lives in Auschwitz: The Prisoners’ Hospital in Buna-Monowitz"
English | ISBN: 1557538247 | 2017 | 275 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
In a 1941 Nazi roundup of educated Poles, Stefan Budziaszek―newly graduated from medical school in Krakow―was incarcerated in the Krakow Montelupich Prison and transferred to the Auschwitz concentration camp in February 1942. German big businesses brutally exploited the cheap labor of prisoners in the camp, and workers were dying. In 1943, Stefan, now a functionary prisoner, was put in charge of the on-site prisoner hospital, which at the time was more like an infirmary staffed by well-connected but untrained prisoners. Stefan transformed this facility from just two barracks into a working hospital and outpatient facility that employed more than 40 prisoner doctors and served a population of 10,000 slave laborers.

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After the Annex Anne Frank, Auschwitz and Beyond


After the Annex: Anne Frank, Auschwitz and Beyond by Bas von Benda-Beckmann
English | April 6th, 2023 | ISBN: 1914414497 | 352 pages | True EPUB | 17.74 MB
On 27 January 1945 Otto Frank was liberated from Auschwitz by Russian soldiers. At that point not only his journey home started, but also his long quest to find out what had happened to his wife Edith, his daughters Margot and Anne and the four other people with whom he had been in hiding in the Annex at 263 Prinsengracht in Amsterdam: Herman and Auguste van Pels, their son Peter and dentist Fritz Pfeffer.

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Hanged at Auschwitz An Extraordinary Memoir of Survival


Hanged at Auschwitz: An Extraordinary Memoir of Survival By Sam Kessel
2001 | 198 Pages | ISBN: 0815411626 | EPUB | 1 MB
A Jewish member of the French Resistance, Sim Kessel lived for almost three years in Nazi captivity. The bulk of his time was at the Auschwitz concentration camp, where he survived torture, starvation, and even his own public execution through extraordinary luck. His remarkable and terrifying story shows in knowing and intimate detail how guards and kapos under the Nazi system degenerated into conscienceless killers, and how the desperate scramble to survive dehumanized Kessel’s fellow prisoners.

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