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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Eischeid, Susan J.     Subjects     Mandl, Maria.     Auschwitz (Concentration camp) -- Officials and employees.     Nazi concentration camps -- Officials and employees.     War criminals -- Germany -- Biography.     Women Nazis -- Germany -- Biography.     War crime trials -- Germany.     Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)     Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Atrocities.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Eischeid, Susan J.       by title:      Mistress of life and...       by call number:      943.086 M272e     Search the Web     Eischeid, Susan J.     Mandl, Maria.     Auschwitz (Concentration camp) -- Officials and employees.     Nazi concentration camps -- Officials and employees.     War criminals -- Germany -- Biography.     Women Nazis -- Germany -- Biography.     War crime trials -- Germany.     Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)     Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Atrocities.       MARC Display

Mistress of life and death : the dark journey of Maria Mandl, head overseer of the womens camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau / Susan J. Eischeid. by Eischeid, Susan J. Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp., 2024. Call #: 943.086 M272e Subjects Mandl, Maria.   Auschwitz (Concentration camp) -- Officials and employees.   Nazi concentration camps -- Officials and employees.   War criminals -- Germany -- Biography.   Women Nazis -- Germany -- Biography.   War crime trials -- Germany.   Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)   Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Atrocities. ISBN:  9780806542850 (hc.) Description:  xv, 448 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-440) and index. Summary:  "Eischeid, a performer and teacher who specializes in the music of the Holocaust, has researched the life of Maria Mandl (1912-1948) for more than 20 years. Some of Mandl’s surviving contemporaries have been willing to talk, and Mandl herself added to the massive documentation on the Nazi years. She was born to a close-knit, middle-class Austrian family who passed smoothly through the 1920s but suffered during the Depression the following decade -- although her father, a shoemaker, kept working. When the Germans marched into Austria in 1938, they were greeted with enthusiasm, although Maria’s father did not join in. That same year, Maria moved to Munich, joined the concentration camp bureaucracy, and rose to perhaps its leading post for a woman: director of the women’s camp at Auschwitz, where she oversaw the murder of perhaps 500,000 deportees and both witnessed and personally participated in unspeakable brutality. Eischeid relies heavily on testimony from survivors, who mostly deliver horrifying descriptions of camp life and sadistic treatment from guards. Even as the top official, Mandl continued to enjoy personally abusing prisoners. Due to the steady stream of suffering, torture, and death, some readers may feel the urge to skim. Nearly half the book recounts Mandl’s postwar capture, trial, and execution. The last two events took place in communist Poland, so there was no doubt about the outcome, but it was a sober, well-managed affair, although the media (American included) sensationalized her as “a beast in a gorgeous woman’s body.” Eischeid agonizes over but never explains how an apparently normal person could turn into a monster. One survivor offers a frighteningly reasonable explanation: “She was a nobody. Suddenly she was a somebody. That explains it.”"--Kirkus Reviews. Holds:  2   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 943.086 M272e Core Collection - Adult Checked out Jul 18, 2024 Add Copy to MyList Sackville Public Library Adult Nonfiction 943.086 M272e Adult books Checked in   Add Copy to MyList

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