Przemys¿owa Concentration Camp

The Camp, the Children, the Trials
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-031-13947-5
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 251 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: The Holocaust and its Contexts

This book explores one of the most notorious aspects of the German system of oppression in wartime Poland: the only purpose-built camp for children under the age of 16 years in German-occupied Europe. The camp at Przemyslowa street, or the Polen-Jugendverwahrlager der Sicherheitspolizei in Litzmannstadt as the Germans called it, was a concentration camp for children. The camp at Przemyslowa existed for just over two years, from December 1942 until January 1945. During that time, an unknown number of children, mainly Polish nationals, were imprisoned there and subjected to extreme physical and emotional abuse. For almost all, the consequences of atrocities which they endured in the camp remained with them for the rest of their lives. This book focuses on the establishment of the camp, the experience of the child prisoners, and the post-war investigations and trials. It is based on contemporary German documents, post-war Polish trials and German investigations, as well as dozens of testimonies from camp survivors, guards, civilian camp staff and the camp leadership

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Steinert, Johannes-Dieter

Person, Katarzyna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtspolitik, Erinnerungskultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. The Camps.- 3. The Children.- 4. The Trials.- 5. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Katarzyna Person is a historian of the Holocaust working at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Poland.

Johannes-Dieter Steinert is Professor of Modern European History and Migration Studies at the University of Wolverhampton, UK.