prisoners and prisons

Presents a concise history of Auschwitz, and describes how it became a center of the mass killing of thousands of Jews during World War Two.

Offers an account of two submarines during World War II in 1943 in the South Pacific Ocean. The USS Sculpin was attacked by a Japanese destroyer which subsequently picked up the American sailors. Weeks later the USS Sailfish came upon a Japanese aircraft carrier and did not know that their countrymen from the Sculpin were on board that carrier and trying to escape. Years earlier half the lives of a Sculpin crew were saved by the Sailfish but not this time.

The author relates her experiences as a member of a women's orchestra in 1944, while a prisoner at Auschwitz concentration camp.

Describes life at Ravensbr?ck, the only all-female Nazi concentration camp, including the camp's structure, categories of inmates, and such aspects as sickness, punishment, cultural activities, children's experiences, and extermination. Includes illustrations by prisoners.

This text tells by first hand accounts through diar- ies, letters, and photographs of the atrocities foundduring the Liberation of Concentration Camps. High- lighted topics: Mauthausen, Buchenwald, Dachau, Displaced Persons, Concentration Camps.

Presents a sociological examination into the nature and structure of German concentration camps with a discussion of the uses of terror, violence, and absolute power.