Between the Wires
eBook - ePub

Between the Wires

The Janowska Camp and the Holocaust in Lviv

  1. 390 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Between the Wires

The Janowska Camp and the Holocaust in Lviv

About this book

Winner of the 2025 Omeljan Pritsak Book Prize in Ukrainian Studies
Finalist for the 2024 National Jewish Book Award
Honorable Mention for the 2023-2024 American Association for Ukrainian Studies Book Prize

Between the Wires tells for the first time the history of the Janowska camp in Lviv, Ukraine. Located in a city with the third-largest ghetto in Nazi-occupied Europe, Janowska remains one of the least-known sites of the Holocaust, despite being one of the deadliest. Simultaneously a prison, a slave labor camp, a transit camp to the gas chambers, and an extermination site, this hybrid camp played a complex role in the Holocaust.

Based on extensive archival research, Between the Wires explores the evolution and the connection to Lviv of this rare urban camp. Waitman Wade Beorn reveals the exceptional brutality of the SS staff alongside an almost unimaginable will to survive among prisoners facing horrendous suffering, whose resistance included an armed uprising. This integrated chronicle of perpetrators, victims, and bystanders follows the history of the camp into the postwar era, including attempts to bring its criminals to justice.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Prologue
  9. Introduction
  10. 1. City of Lions
  11. 2. Ein Furioso
  12. 3. The Devil’s Workshop
  13. 4. A Tragic Life
  14. 5. Cerberus Awakens
  15. 6. Behind the Wires
  16. 7. Here Be Monsters
  17. 8. The Spider’s Web
  18. 9. Holokaustos
  19. 10. Testify for Us All
  20. Conclusion
  21. Notes
  22. Bibliography
  23. Index
  24. About Waitman Wade Beorn
  25. Illustrations