The Union Kommando in Auschwitz: The Auschwitz Munition Factory Through the Eyes of Its Former Slave Laborers

by Lore Shelley

This book describes the "Union" munition factory in Auschwitz through the eyes of 36 former prisoners. Unlike arbitrarily collected testimony, these stories are actual eyewitness accounts of persons who worked in the same factory. The accounts are especially beneficial because they look at many events from different angles. The book sheds light on the women's resistance movement in the camp and recounts how the gun-powder was smuggled to the Sonderkommando...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761801944
• ISBN13: 9780761801948
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 442 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.4"