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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     School Library Journal Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Deem, James M.     Subjects     Breendonk (Concentration camp)     Concentration camps -- Belgium -- Willebroek.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Belgium -- Willebroek.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.     Concentration camp inmates -- Belgium.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Deem, James M.       by title:      The Prisoners of Bre...       by call number:      940.53185 D311p     Search the Web     Deem, James M.     Breendonk (Concentration camp)     Concentration camps -- Belgium -- Willebroek.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Belgium -- Willebroek.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.     Concentration camp inmates -- Belgium.       MARC Display

The Prisoners of Breendonk : personal histories from a World War II concentration camp / by James M. Deem with additional photography by Leon Nolis. by Deem, James M. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, c2015. Call #: 940.53185 D311p Subjects Breendonk (Concentration camp)   Concentration camps -- Belgium -- Willebroek.   World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Belgium -- Willebroek.   World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.   Concentration camp inmates -- Belgium. ISBN:  9780544096646 Description:  xi, 340 p. : ill. (some color), maps ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-331) and index. Contents:  The first prisoners: September-December 1940 -- 1. The arrest of Israel Neumann -- 2. Building Breendonk -- 3. Facing the wall -- 4. The first prisoners of room 1 -- 5. The artist of room 1 -- 6. Watching the prisoners -- 7. The Zugf©ơhrer of room 1 -- 8. A day at Breendonk -- The first deaths: January-June 1941 -- 9. Changes -- 10. The first escape -- 11. Despair -- 12. A picture-perfect camp -- Camp of the creeping death: June 1941-June 1942 -- 13. Operation Solstice -- 14. Prisoner number 59 -- 15. A substitution -- 16. The rivals -- 17. The plant eaters -- 18. July 24, 1941 -- 19. The hell of Breendonk -- 20. The first transport -- 21. A temporary lull -- A second camp: July-August 1942 -- 22. The Sammellager in Mechelen -- 23. Transport II to Auschwitz-Birkenau -- Camp of terror: September 1942-April 1944 -- 24. The postal workers of Brussels -- 25. The first executions -- 26. The Arrestanten -- 27. The bunker -- 28. January 6, 1943 -- 29. The winter of 1942-43 -- 30. Transport XX -- 31. The chaplain of the executions -- 32. Two heroes of Breendonk -- 33. The twelve from Senzeilles -- The many endings of Auffanglager Breendonk: May 1944-May 1945 -- 34. Evacuating Breendonk -- 35. Journey from Mauthausen -- 36. End of the supermen -- 37. The final transport from Neuengamme -- After the war: 1945-present -- 38. The war crimes trials -- 39. The final death -- 40. Breendonk today -- Afterword: What happened to some Breendonk prisoners and their families -- Appendixes -- 1. Main deportations from Auffanglager Breendonk -- 2. Deportations from SS-Sammellager Mechelen. Summary:  This absorbing and captivating nonfiction account (with never-before-published photographs) offers readers an in-depth anthropological and historical look into the lives of those who suffered and survived Breendonk concentration camp during the Holocaust of World War II. Awards:  A Junior Library Guild selection. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Captain William Spry Public Library Young Adult Nonfiction 940.53185 D311p Ya Books Checked out Jul 02, 2024 Add Copy to MyList Sheet Harbour Public Library Young Adult Nonfiction 940.53185 D311p Ya Books Checked in   Add Copy to MyList

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