Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp by Christopher R. Browning (PDF)

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Winner of the National Jewish Book Award “An important, revealing story, exceptionally well told.” ―Jonathan Yardley, Washington PostEmploying the rich testimony of almost three hundred survivors of the slave-labor camps of Starachowice, Poland, Christopher R. Browning draws the experiences of the Jewish prisoners, the Nazi authorities, and the neighboring Poles together into a chilling history of a little-known dimension of the Holocaust. Combining harrowing detail and insightful analysis on the Starachowice camps and their role in the Holocaust, Browning’s history is indispensable scholarship and an unforgettable story of survival. 8 pages of black-and-white illustrations

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Editorial Reviews: Review “A master historian of intimate tragedy.” ― Moment Magazine”A chilling account.” ― The News & Observer”Extraordinary and revealing. Browning powerfully and convincingly vindicates the use of survivor testimony as a precious source for the reconstruction of the past.” ― Jewish Review of Books”A wonderfully rich, nuanced book. A major work by a major historian of the Holocaust.” ― David Blackbourn, author of The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany”Remembering Survival is a remarkable book about life and death in a little-known Nazi slave-labor camp as seen from the perspective of Jewish survivors. It brilliantly demonstrates how postwar testimonies can become the building blocks for the historical reconstruction of an otherwise hardly documented past. Like Browning’s Ordinary Men, this book will become a must-read.” ― Saul Friedlander, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1933–1945″Christopher Browning proves himself once again our indispensable guide through the cruelty and sadness of the larger Holocaust within which his account unfolds. But more: he wrestles agonizingly with the painful question of Polish complicity and the scandalous German acquittal of a monstrous perpetrator. His readers as well as those whose suffering he has recorded stand in his debt.” ― Charles Maier, author of Among Empires”Christopher Browning has written what should become a standard work of Holocaust history, a counterpoint to his classic, Ordinary Men. Remembering Survival rests on the testimony of victims whose searing memories…deepen our knowledge of a neglected part of the Holocaust.” ― Michael R. Marrus, author of The Holocaust in History”A breakthrough in Holocaust historiography―this is vintage Browning.” ― Yehuda Bauer, author of The Death of the Shtetl”Browning is a meticulous and disciplined researcher. What emerges is a highly credible and deeply shocking account of a slave-labor camp where the cruelty and brutality is comparable to the more publicized extermination camps like Treblinka and Auschwitz. An excellent addition to the field of Holocaust studies.” ― Booklist About the Author Christopher R. Browning, now retired from teaching, was the Frank Porter Graham Professor of History at the University of North Carolina and is the author of Ordinary Men, Remembering Survival, and other works of Holocaust history. He lives in Chapel Hill.

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⭐Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave Labor Camp is by Christopher R. Browning. This nonfiction book is about a formerly unknown series of camps known as Starachowice in Poland. Christopher relies on the testimonies of over three hundred survivors of this camp. At times, there are several testimonies from the same person at different times in their lives and by different entities for different reasons. Some of the testimonies were taken right after liberation while the survivors were still processing these events. Many may have been cautious about revealing too many details for fear of retribution or they may have blocked out details that were too difficult to remember. Some of the testimonies were taken by the German government prior to the trial of Walther Becker for his role in the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Wierzbnik. These testimonies were focused on a specific time period and a specific man so are limited. Some of the testimonies were a result of the efforts of the Shoah foundation, Yad Vashem, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and other museums and entities who have made an effort to record as many testimonies as possible before the survivors are no longer with us. Other than these testimonies and a few memoirs, there are few records of this camp available.The book takes one from the pre-war situation in this area through the war and to the present day. It is an interesting look at a camp that was specifically set up for slave labor and not for annihilation of the Jews. It is easy for a non-historian to read and understand. It does have an extensive notes section which tells where he got his information. Although the material in itself is upsetting, the way Christopher R. Browning presents it, makes it not overwhelmingly depressing.I would recommend this book to anyone interested in learning more about the different types of camps the Nazis set up during their regime. You get a different view of some of the perpetrators and you get a view of the various ways the Jews rebelled and resisted.

⭐Great service, will buy again

⭐Kudos to the author for an amazing work of scholarship and research. Ditto his organizational, analytics and writing skills. It is an important work and quite different from standard individual testimonies. He chose one concentration camp system, drilled down into minute detail of the enormous number of survivor stories and drew many valuable conclusions about the whole experience in contrast to other locations. A unique situation and outcome for those in the camp. It was a bit of a slog reading the book because of its scholarly tone but I understand why it was written that way. I read a bit at a time and stuck with it and am glad I did. The last two chapters were especially elucidating. A bit too much time was spent on the “unreliability” of survivor testimonies for various reasons. But I can see why an historian needs to be sceptical and go with the truth in multiple witness agreements on certain facts. A worthwhile read for a different view of Holocaust perspective.

⭐This is a very well researched book. The author attempts and succeeds in bringing the reader the full, tragic truth with all of the elements of researching such a subject from first person narrative. Bless him. Bless the survivors. Bless the poor victims……

⭐Historical document. My Mother and her Sisters we’re forced to be there. She said it was a horrible place to be. They got Typhoid fever and were attacked by lice and Nazis.

⭐Great read by a holocaust historian. A fascinating look at In depth stories from people who had first hand memories.

⭐Detailed and painstakingly researched, one is taken inside the moments by walking beside the victims. Endlessly shocking, this is a microcosm for gaining an understanding of the whole, of both the perpetrators and the victims. Browning is a master of clarity — so clear it is relentlessly painful — tempered by wisdom. Here we learn facts as we must, but we come out the other side with some of the wisdom of the author having penetrated us, making us better for it.

⭐Mr. Browning’s book gave great insight into a Nazi labor camp by giving interesting testimony. His book also emphasized that the camp guards, Germans and Ukrainians, were not cookie-cutters, but had varying degrees of harsh and lenient treatment of the camp’s population. That is important to know about The Holocaust.

⭐I bought this book because my father is quoted in it since he was interned in this camp during the war. Looks like a well researched and factual account of this horrible work camp that my father would call “a shooting gallery.” Good for researchers.

⭐OK

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