Saving Lives in Auschwitz: The Prisoners’ Hospital in Buna-MonowitzEwa K Bacon
The Häftlingskrankenbau (HKB), otherwise known as Ka-Be, was the “hospital” for prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp. This book is about the HKB in Auschwitz III, from 1942 to 1945 providing the IG Farben Buna synthetic rubber factory in Monowitz with slave laborers. At its height, Monowitz wareho...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2020
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2020, Volume: 34, Issue: 2, Pages: 325-327 |
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| Summary: | The Häftlingskrankenbau (HKB), otherwise known as Ka-Be, was the “hospital” for prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp. This book is about the HKB in Auschwitz III, from 1942 to 1945 providing the IG Farben Buna synthetic rubber factory in Monowitz with slave laborers. At its height, Monowitz warehoused more than 11,000 prisoners. Over the course of its operations, more than 10,000—marked for death from starvation, overwork, illness, and SS violence—were selected for the nearby Birkenau gas chambers. Hundreds died at the Buna building site, many more in the Monowitz camp itself, including 1,600 at its HKB. Stefan Budziaszek, a Krakow MD imprisoned for participation in a Catholic Polish resistance group, was put in charge of the HKB by the leading SS doctor of Auschwitz, Eduard Wirths. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcaa040 |