Jews in Concentration Camps, 1933–1945

doi:10.1017/9781108900447.015

12 - Jews in Concentration Camps, 1933–1945

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 May 2025

Kim Wünschmann

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Marion Kaplan and

Natalia Aleksiun

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Marion Kaplan: Affiliation:
New York University
Natalia Aleksiun: Affiliation:
University of Florida

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This chapter first turns to patterns of arrest, imprisonment, and release, then to life inside the camps, including sites of terror, and also to prisoners’ attempts at survival, self-assertion, and resistance. It examines how inmate populations changed over time and how life and death in the camps was tied to gender, age, and class as well as networks. It also compares the experiences of Jewish inmates to non-Jews in these same camps.

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arrest gender Jews work-shy prisoners SS gas chambers women release 14f13 14f14 “Jew blocks,” resistance

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Information: The Cambridge History of the Holocaust , pp. 202 - 217

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108900447.015 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2025

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