The Auschwitz Concentration Camp. History, Biographies, Remembrance

ISBN-13: 9783838211060 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 420 str.

Chris Webb; Cameron Munro

Opis

This book provides a chronological account of the Auschwitz concentration camp from the camp's beginning to its liberation in January 1945, and beyond. Chris Webb balances the sufferings of the victims and the actions, characters, and fates of the perpetrators to give a thorough overview of all aspects of Auschwitz and its many satellite camps.

O autorze

Chris Webb has been researching the Holocaust for over forty-five years. He made his mark by the publication of his remembrance trilogy on the Aktion Reinhardt camps, i.e. Treblinka, Belzec, and Sobibor. In recent years, he has founded a number of Holocaust websites, such as the Holocaust Historical Society, the Holocaust Education and Archive Research Team. He was also involved in the BBC program Auschwitz - The Nazis and the Final Solution in 2005 and a number of other Holocaust-related documentaries, and has donated images from his extensive private archive. He has lectured in a number of universities and given talks at Holocaust Memorial Day commemorations for well over ten years. He has guided study groups in Auschwitz and the former Krakow ghetto and other Holocaust sites in Poland. Webb is also a Research Associate for the Centre of Fascist, Anti-Fascist, and Post-Fascist Studies at Teesside University, and is a member of the Tiergarten4Association e.V. in Berlin. He is married with one daughter and lives in Hampshire.