485 Days at Majdanek
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516 Pages, 6 x 9
Formats: Hardcover, ebook: EPUB, ebook: PDF, Mobipocket
Hardcover, $59.95 (US $59.95) (CA $80.95)
Publication Date: February 2021
ISBN 9780817924140
Overview
A harrowing firsthand account of life and death inside Majdanek concentration camp.In 1945, with events fresh in his mind, Jerzy Kwiatkowski sat down to describe his sixteen-month internment at Majdanek concentration camp—everything he endured and witnessed, from the most mundane frustrations of prisoner life under the Nazi regime to the horrors of its darkest excesses. Kwiatkowski's memoir provides rich details documenting the infrastructure and routines of daily life, providing one of the most historically significant accounts of the realities of hard labor, violence, war crimes, and mass extermination in a Nazi war camp.
485 Days at Majdanek forms a rich documentary record of one of the Third Reich's most horrific camps. Translated into English for the first time, and illustrated with rare archival images, this valuable historical record and its insights are now available to a wider audience. This is a must-read for historians, students, and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the Holocaust and the strength of the human spirit in the face of unimaginable suffering.
Author Biography
Jerzy Kwiatkowski (1894–1980) was a lawyer, banker, and industrialist who was arrested as a political prisoner by the Nazi regime in 1943 and sent to the Konzentrationslager (concentration camp) Lublin, in occupied Poland.
Norman M. Naimark is senior fellow of the Hoover Institution and of the Freeman Spogli Institute and McDonnell Professor of East European Studies at Stanford. His most recent book is Stalin and the Fate of Europe: The Struggle for Sovereignty in Postwar Europe.
