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New. Size: 9x6x1; vii, 402 pages: illustrations; 24 cm. Paperback. Fine binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Twenty women prisoners' accounts of the Auschwitz inferno presenting the female experience in the camps. This title deals with general issues that were common to all inmates, as well as with gender-specific problems such as how they lived, how they managed to survive, and what were the main problems they had to confront in their struggle for existence. Included are eyewitness accounts of the pseudo-medical activities and personnel, and of the resistance groups within the camp. Lore Shelley (nee Weinberg) was born in 1924 in Luebbecke, Germany, the child of a German-Jewish family. She attended public schools until 1938 when she was forced to leave because of anti-Jewish laws. She she was deported to the Kersdorf labor camp In 1941. She remained there for almost two years before her deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1943. She worked at Auschwitz until its evacuation in January 1945 when she was sent on a death march to Ravensbrueck and Malchow. After immigrating to the United States and completing her PhD, Shelley published five books about the Holocaust. Her first book, Secretaries of Death, was published in 1986 and was followed by Criminal Experiments on Human Beings in Auschwitz and War Research Laboratories in 1991, Auschwitz-The Nazi Civilization in 1992, The Union Kommando in Auschwitz in 1996, and Post-Auschwitz Fragments in 1997. Shelley devoted her professional life to documenting the experiences of other Holocaust survivors, primarily those who survived the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
