Philip Mechanicus, born April 17, 1889, in

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and died in October 1944 in the

Auschwitz Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It con ...

concentration camp, was a Dutch journalist and diarist. PhilipMechanicus

Bibliography

* Renata Laqueur: ''Schreiben im KZ. Tagebücher 1940–1945'' Bearbeitet von Martina Dreisbach und mit einem Geleitwort von Rolf Wernstedt, Donat-Verlag, Bremen 1992, Zugl.: New York, Univ., Diss., , pp. 130. * Koert Broersma: ''Buigen onder de storm. Levensschets van Philip Mechanicus 1889-1944'', Van Gennep, Amsterdam 1993. 2019, . *Mechanicus, Philip, In Depot, Polak & Vangennep, 1964, one of the first camp diaries to be released after the war. the Diary Keepers,Nina Siegal, ecco/Harper Collins, NY , 2023.P.331-2 Translated into English by Irene Gibbons as Waiting for Death in 1968.

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Print journalists Dutch journalists Dutch people who died in Auschwitz concentration camp 1889 births 1944 deaths {{Netherlands-journalist-stub