Surviving the Camps: Unity in Adversity During the Holocaust

by Paul R. Bartrop

Surviving the Camps is an intriguing study of life in the Nazi concentration camps during World War II. Paul R. Bartrop responds to earlier scholarly evaluations with the theory that the formation of a prisoner social system based on cooperation and mutual aid served as a positive force that, to a substantial degree, countered the structure imposed on the prisoners by the Nazis. Bartrop concludes that only group solidarity could alleviate the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761816291
• ISBN13: 9780761816294
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 232 Pages