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Saving Lives in Auschwitz
The Prisoners' Hospital in Buna-Monowitz
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Artikel-Nr:
9781557538246
Veröffentl:
2017
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.11.2017
Seiten:
275
Autor:
Ewa K Bacon
Gewicht:
612 g
Format:
238x164x25 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Dr. Ewa K. Bacon is Professor Emerita at Lewis University in Romeoville, Illinois. She holds a doctorate in history from the University of Chicago. Her research interests include globalization issues and genocide, holocaust, and violence studies.
In a 1941 Nazi roundup of educated Poles, Stefan Budziaszek--newly graduated from medical school in Krakow--was incarcerated in the Krakow Montelupich Prison and transferred to the Auschwitz concentration camp in February 1942. German big businesses brutally exploited the cheap labor of prisoners in the camp, and workers were dying. In 1943, Stefan, now a functionary prisoner, was put in charge of the on-site prisoner hospital, which at the time was more like an infirmary staffed by well-connected but untrained prisoners. Stefan transformed this facility from just two barracks into a working hospital and outpatient facility that employed more than 40 prisoner doctors and served a population of 10,000 slave laborers.