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Deem, James M., author.
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Breendonk (Concentration camp) -- Juvenile literature.
Internment camps -- Belgium -- Willebroek -- Juvenile literature.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Belgium -- Willebroek -- Juvenile literature.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Nazi concentration camp inmates -- Belgium -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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The prisoners of Bre...
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The prisoners of Breendonk : personal histories from a World War II concentration camp / by James M. Deem with additional photography by Leon Nolis.
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Deem, James M., author.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, c2015.
Subjects
Breendonk (Concentration camp) -- Juvenile literature.
Internment camps -- Belgium -- Willebroek -- Juvenile literature.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Belgium -- Willebroek -- Juvenile literature.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Nazi concentration camp inmates -- Belgium -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
ISBN:
9780544096646
0544096649
Description:
xi, 340 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Contents:
Part 1. The first prisoners: September-December 1940 -- The arrest of Israel Neumann -- Building Breendonk -- Facing the wall -- The first prisoners of Room 1 -- The artist of Room 1 -- Watching the prisoners -- The Zugführer of Room 1 -- A day at Breendonk -- Part 2. The first deaths: January-June 1941 -- Changes -- The first escape -- Despair -- A picture-perfect camp -- Part 3. Camp of the creeping death: June 1941-June 1942 -- Operation Solstice -- Prisoner number 59 -- A substitution -- The rivals -- The plant eaters -- July 24, 1941 -- The hell of Breendonk -- The first transport -- A temporary lull -- Part 4. A second camp: July-August 1942 -- The Sammellager in Mechelen -- Transport II to Auschwitz-Birkenau -- Part 5. Camp of terror: September 1942-April 1944 -- The postal workers of Brussels -- The first executions -- The Arrestanten -- The bunker -- January 6, 1943 -- The winter of 1942-43 -- Transport XX -- The chaplain of the executions -- Two heroes of Breendonk -- The twelve from Senzeilles -- Part 6. The many endings of Auffanglager Breendonk: May 1944-May 1945 -- Evacuating Breendonk -- Journey from Mauthausen -- End of the supermen -- The final transport from Neuengamme -- Part 7. After the war: 1945-present -- The war crimes trials -- The final death -- Breendonk today -- Afterword: What happened to some Breendonk prisoners and their families -- Appendix 1. Main deportations from Auffanglager Breendonk -- Appendix 2. Deportations from SS-Sammellager Mechelen.
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"This absorbing and captivating nonfiction account (with never-before-published photographs) offers readers an in-depth anthropological and historical look into the lives of those who suffered and survived Breendonk concentration camp during the Holocaust of World War II"--
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Kaimuki Public Library
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940.53185 De
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