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Als Boten der Opfer : von Prag durch Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, Schwarzheide und zurück : tschechisch-jüdische Schicksale 1939-1997 / Pavel Stránský ; herausgegeben von Erhard Roy Wiehn.

Title
Als Boten der Opfer : von Prag durch Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, Schwarzheide und zurück : tschechisch-jüdische Schicksale 1939-1997 / Pavel Stránský ; herausgegeben von Erhard Roy Wiehn.
Author
Stránský, Pavel
Publication
Konstanz : Hartung-Gorre, 1997.

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Additional Authors
Wiehn, Erhard R.
Description
90 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
Summary
Pp. 13-48 contain the memoirs of Stránský, a Czech Jew (b. 1921). Describes the children's block of the "Czech family camp" in Auschwitz (he was in charge of the house of the 3-6 year olds), including visits by Mengele, who took children on his lap and played with them; the liquidation of his transport after half a year; the labor camp at Schwarzheide; and the death march to Theresienstadt in April 1945. Stresses SS tactics to dehumanize the prisoners. also describes his dismissal from his job in a Czech government office during the Slánský trial and the silence about the Holocaust imposed by the communist regime.
Subject
  • Stránský, Pavel
  • Konzentrationslager Auschwitz
  • Auschwitz > Konzentrationslager
  • Geschichte 1941-1945
  • 1939-1945
  • Geschichte 1941-1945
  • Jews > Czech Republic > Biography
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Personal narratives
Genre/Form
  • Biographies
  • Personal narratives
  • Biografie.
  • Erlebnisbericht.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
3896492039
OCLC
  • 38315291
  • SCSB-11637144
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library