
- 390 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- Introduction
- 1. City of Lions
- 2. Ein Furioso
- 3. The Devil’s Workshop
- 4. A Tragic Life
- 5. Cerberus Awakens
- 6. Behind the Wires
- 7. Here Be Monsters
- 8. The Spider’s Web
- 9. Holokaustos
- 10. Testify for Us All
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About Waitman Wade Beorn
- Illustrations