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Auschwitz 1940–1945
''Auschwitz 1940–1945: Central Issues in the History of the Camp'' is a five-volume monograph about the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland during World War II and the Holocaust. Written by researchers at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, it was first published by the museum in Polish in 1995 as ''Auschwitz 1940–1945: Węzłowe zagadnienia z dziejów obozu''. An enlarged and updated German edition appeared in 1999, translated by Jochen August, and an English edition in 2000, translated by William Brand and partly funded by the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad.Neander, Joachim (2002)"Auschwitz Scholars Examine Auschwitz" ''Yad Vashem Studies'', XXX, 437–450. It appeared in French in 2004, and an enlarged and updated French edition was published in 2011. The series editors, Wacław Długoborski and Franciszek Piper, are noted Holocaust historians; Piper is known, in particular, for having established widely accepted fig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franciszek Piper
Franciszek Piper (born 1941) is a Polish scholar, historian and author. Most of his work concerns the Holocaust, especially the history of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Dr. Piper is credited as one of the historians who helped establish a more accurate number of victims of Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps. According to his research, at least 1.1 million people were murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau, of whom about 960,000 were Jewish. He is the author of several books and chair of the Historical Department at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. ''Auschwitz: How Many Perished'' Franciszek Piper, former Head of Historical department of the Auschwitz Museum, is the author of scholarly analysis translated numerous times and widely quoted by foremost Holocaust historians and the media, in which he presented the results of his scientific analysis of the original sources and findings on the deportations to Auschwitz. Piper concluded that a total of at least 1,300,000 people were deporte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksander Lasik
Aleksander Lasik (born 1953) is a Polish historian specializing in the history of the Schutzstaffel (SS) within German concentration camps. A professor at the Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, he has worked as an historian for Poland's Institute of National Remembrance. Lasik is known, in particular, for having helped to compile a database, which he started in 1982 when he was writing his PhD, of 25,000 names of those who staffed concentration camps in German-occupied Poland during the Holocaust. The list includes 9,686 names of personnel at the Auschwitz concentration camp."Personal records of the Auschwitz concentration camp personnel finally made available to the public" The Inst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holocaust And Genocide Studies
The Holocaust (), known in Hebrew as the (), was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. The murders were carried out primarily through mass shootings and poison gas in extermination camps, chiefly Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, and Chełmno in occupied Poland. Separate Nazi persecutions killed a similar or larger number of non-Jewish civilians and prisoners of war (POWs); the term ''Holocaust'' is sometimes used to include the murder and persecution of non-Jewish groups. The Nazis developed their ideology based on racism and pursuit of "living space", and seized power in early 1933. Meant to force all German Jews to emigrate, regardless of means, the regime passed anti-Jewish laws, encouraged harassment, and orchestrated a nationwide pogrom in November ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Hayes (historian)
Peter F. Hayes (born 1946) is professor emeritus of history at the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University, and chair of the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Specializing in the Holocaust, genocide and the history of modern Germany, Hayes is the author or editor of 10 books, including ''Industry and Ideology: IG Farben in the Nazi Era'' (1987), a prize-winning study of the IG Farben corporation. He has been described as the leading scholar of the historiography of industry in Nazi Germany. Early life and education Hayes was born in the Boston area to an Irish Catholic family; when he and his three siblings were older, his mother worked as a secretary for Honeywell. After attending middle and high school in Framingham, MA, Hayes completed his AB in government in 1968 at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, where he was supervised by John Rensenbrink for his senior thesis on African politics. He had intended to study law b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yad Vashem Studies
Yad Vashem (; ) is Israel's official memorial institution to the victims of the Holocaust known in Hebrew as the (). It is dedicated to preserving the memory of the Jews who were murdered; echoing the stories of the survivors; honoring Jews who fought against their Nazi oppressors and gentiles who selflessly aided Jews in need; and researching the phenomenon of the Holocaust in particular and genocide in general, with the aim of avoiding such events in the future. Yad Vashem's vision, as stated on its website, is: "To lead the documentation, research, education and commemoration of the Holocaust, and to convey the chronicles of this singular Jewish and human event to every person in Israel, to the Jewish people, and to every significant and relevant audience worldwide." Established in 1953, Yad Vashem is located on the Mount of Remembrance, on the western slope of Mount Herzl, a height in western Jerusalem, above sea level and adjacent to the Jerusalem Forest. The memorial co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) is the United States' official memorial to the Holocaust, dedicated to the documentation, study, and interpretation of the Holocaust. Opened in 1993, the museum explores the Holocaust through permanent and traveling exhibitions, educational programs, survivor testimonies and archival collections. The USHMM was created to help leaders and citizens of the world confront hatred, prevent genocide, promote human dignity, and strengthen democracy. Overview In 2008, the museum had an operating budget of $120.6 million, a staff of about 400 employees, 125 contractors, 650 volunteers, 91 Holocaust survivors, and 175,000 members. It has local offices in New York City, Boston, Boca Raton, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Dallas. Since its dedication on April 22, 1993, the museum has had nearly 40 million visitors, including more than 10 million school children, 120 heads of state, and more than 3,500 foreign officials from over 132 countries ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irving Greenberg
Irving Yitzchak Greenberg (born May 16, 1933), also known as Yitz Greenberg, is an American scholar, author, and rabbi. Greenberg is known as a strong supporter of Israel, as well as a promoter of greater understanding between Judaism and Christianity. Early life and education Greenberg was born and raised in Brooklyn. He attended Yeshiva Beis Yosef, where he was ordained in 1953. At the same time, he attended Brooklyn College, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history, ''summa cum laude.'' He later earned a Master of Arts and PhD in American history from Harvard University, having written his dissertation on Theodore Roosevelt and the American labor movement. Career He served as the Jewish chaplain of Brandeis University, the rabbi of the Riverdale Jewish Center, an associate professor of history at Yeshiva University, and as a founder, chairman, and professor in the department of Jewish studies of the City College of New York. He is currently on the faculty of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henryk Świebocki
Henryk Świebocki (born 1940) is a Polish historian. A senior custodian of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, Świebocki specializes in the resistance movement within the Auschwitz concentration camp in occupied Poland during World War II. He is the editor of ''London has been informed: Reports by Auschwitz escapees'' (1997); author of ''The Resistance Movement'', volume IV of '' Auschwitz 1940–1945'' (2000); and editor of ''People of Good Will'' (2009). __TOC__ Early life and education Świebocki was born in Stary Sącz, Poland. His father, Karol Świebocki, was a member of Poland's Home Army who was imprisoned in Auschwitz as a political prisoner from 17 June 1942; he died on 10 August that year in a gas chamber in Auschwitz II–Birkenau, one of a group of 193 sick prisoners in the camp hospital that the Germans decided to gas. Świebocki's uncle, an artist, was also imprisoned in the camp, for three years, but he survived. A graduate of Jagiellonian University The Jag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irena Strzelecka
Irena Strzelecka (4 January 1940 – 31 May 2017) was a Polish historian and senior custodian of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland. She was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta for her work on the history of the Auschwitz concentration camp. The author of over 30 articles on the camp, Strzelecka wrote about its hospitals, its medical experiments, and the situation of its female prisoners. She was the author of several articles in the five-volume monograph ''Auschwitz 1940–1945'' (2000), including on the camp's construction and the punishment of prisoners; she also helped to retrieve and document the history of several of the Auschwitz subcamps. With Franciszek Piper, she edited a series on Polish political prisoners sent to Auschwitz from Kraków, Lublin, Radom and Warsaw. Strzelecka was born in Przemyśl. A graduate of the history and philosophy department at Jagiellonian University The Jagiellonian University (, UJ) is a public research u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piotr Setkiewicz
Piotr Setkiewicz (born 1963) is the director of Centre for Research at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum (''Centrum Badań Państwowego Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau w Oświęcimiu''); a graduate of the Faculty of History at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Setkiewicz received his Ph.D. degree in 1999 at the University of Silesia in Katowice for the work entitled ''IG Farben - Werk Auschwitz 1941-1945''. He is the editor-in-chief of scientific publication ''The Auschwitz Journals'' (''Zeszyty Oświęcimskie'') as the head historian at the Auschwitz Museum. Setkiewicz became research scientist at the Auschwitz Museum in 1988 upon graduation from University. He worked at the Science Department (''Dział Naukowy''), than in 20012007 was appointed Director of Archives and in 2008 Director of the Science Department since renamed as the Centre for Research (''Centrum Badań'') in 2014. Setkiewicz's own scientific work is focused on the history of prisoner labour in the Nazi Germa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanisław Kłodziński
Stanisław Kłodziński (1918–1990) was a Polish physician, lung specialist, and survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp Auschwitz, or Oświęcim, was a complex of over 40 Nazi concentration camps, concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany, occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) d .... He became known for his writing about Auschwitz, and in particular for having co-founded the ' (''Auschwitz Journals'') in 1961, devoted to discussing the camp.Jane Caplan, Nikolaus Wachsmann, "Introduction," ''Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany'', Routledge, 2009, p. 4. Notes 1918 births 1990 deaths Auschwitz concentration camp survivors Polish pulmonologists {{Poland-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
