This is the catalogue of the first-ever traveling exhibition about the Auschwitz concentration camp, where 1.1 million people – mostly Jews, but also non-Jewish Poles, Roma, and others – lost their lives. More than 280 objects and images from the exhibition are illustrated herein.
Long Shadows: Ne w York Remember s
\nBruce C. Ratner and
\nMichael S. Glickman 7
\nWe All Nee d Peace. Memory,
\nMeanwhile, Bree ds Unre st.
\nDr. Piotr M. A. Cywiński 9
\nThe Heart of the Matter
\nLuis Ferreiro 11
\nA
\nuschwitz Stories and
\nthe Story of A
\nuschwitz
\nDr. Robert Jan van Pelt 13
\nAUSCHWITZ
\nNot long ago. Not far away.
\nDr. Robert Jan van Pelt 21
\nTHE ENCOUNTER
\nA Dot on the Map 22
\nThe Whee l Set and the Shoe 26
\nJanuary 27, 1945 28
\nBEFORE AUSCHWITZ
\nOświęcim\/Oshpitzin\/Auschwitz
\n32
\nJews, Judaism, and Anti-Judaism 36
\nJews and Non-Jews in Moder n Europe 40
\nWorld War I 45
\nThe Afterm ath of the Gre at War 47
\nThe Third Reich:
\nA Nation of Comrades 53
\nCulling the Nation 57
\nInter nment Camps for Roma 64
\nThe Expulsion of the Jews 67
\nThe Invasion of Poland and the
\nBeginning of World War II 76
\n“Unworthy of Life” 81
\nFear 83
\nAUSCHWITZ
\nA Germ an Concentration Camp
\nin Auschwitz
\n86
\nMug Shots 90
\nPrisoner Functionaries 95
\nThe Common Prisoner s 97
\nPrisoner s with a “Good” Job 102
\nBusiness 105
\nThe Invasion of the Soviet Union
\nand the Construction of Auschwitz-
\nBirkenau 110
\nThe Beginning of the Holocaust 114
\nGenocidal Ingenuity 118
\nHiding 126
\nDep ortations 134
\nThe Porajmos 137
\nDisbelief and Indiffere nce 139
\nArr ival and Selection 141
\nThis Black Spot at the Core
\nof Europe , This Red Spot,
\nThis Spot of Fire . . . 146
\nThe Lethal Core 151
\nBearing Witness:
\nSonder kommandos 156
\nA Parallel World 160
\nKanada 161
\nOn Innocence, Radical Loss,
\nand Spiritual Stamina 166
\nStrippe d 169
\nBehind the Barr ack Walls 173
\nAnnihi lation Through Labor 176
\nMedical Exper iments 178
\nResistance 181
\nThe World Must Know 185
\nUpr ising 188
\nDep arture s and the
\njDeath March 190
\nAFTER AUSCHWITZ
\nLiber ation 194
\nSurvivors 198
\nThe Site 206
\nThe Catastrophe in Number s 208
\nAr chitect(ure )’s We akest Moment. Or,
\nWhen Not to Learn from Ar chitects
\nDjamel Zeniti 212
\nSearching for Meaning
\nin Traces of the Past
\nPaul Salmons 216
\nConser ving Testaments
\nto Human Survival
\nDr. Ana Galán Pérez 219
\nTestimony in the Exhibition
\nDr. Michael Berenbaum, with
\nKen Winikur 222
\nFrom Gener ation to Gener ation
\nJosé Antonio Múgica
\nand María Teresa Aguirre 225
\nYou Who Are Passing By 226
\nNotes 228
\nFurther Reading 231
\nIndex 234
\nCre dits and Acknowledgments 239<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15928,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[21063],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15927","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-history","7":"author-by-author-robert-jan-van-pelt","8":"publisher-abbeville-press","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n