Nightmares : memoirs of the years of horror under Nazi rule in Europe, 1939-1945 /
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| Author / Creator: | Charmatz, Konrad, 1910-1986 |
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| Uniform title: | Ḳoshmarn. English |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2003. |
| Description: | xiv, 274 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Religion, theology, and the Holocaust |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5002756 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part 1.
- 1.. Not God, not Man, but the Devil Himself
- 2.. My First Contact with the Shtetl
- 3.. People on the Run
- 4.. The First Rosh Hashana under German Occupation
- 5.. Getting Used to the Troubles
- 6.. Sosnowiec
- 7.. Terror and Evil Decrees
- 8.. The Tricks of the Nazis
- 9.. The Judenrat
- 10.. The Problem of Shelter in the Ghetto
- 11.. A Jewish Cafe in the Ghetto
- 12.. Liquidations
- 13.. Labor Camps
- 14.. The First Transfer
- 15.. The Second Transfer
- 16.. The Third Mass Transfer
- 17.. The Mournful Mood in the Ghetto
- 18.. The Turn Comes to Liquidate the Workshops
- 19.. The Last Action
- 20.. The Liquidation of the Judenrat
- 21.. The Completion of the Liquidation
- Part 2. My Personal Fate
- 22.. I Fall into the Grasp of the Gestapo
- 23.. Those in the Prison
- 24.. A Cell of Jews Only
- 25.. My Mother Appears to Plead My Case
- 26.. The Noose Around My Neck Gets Tighter and Tighter
- 27.. "If a Misfortune Is Destined, It Will Come Right into the House"
- 28.. I Get a Notice to Report to the Dulag
- 29.. We Arrive at the Slave Labor Camp
- 30.. The Day Arrives
- 31.. The First Day in Hell
- 32.. Block Number 7
- 33.. Life in the Block at Birkenau
- 34.. The Work in Birkenau Camp
- 35.. A Strange Meeting in Hell
- 36.. I Break Down
- 37.. Warsaw
- 38.. The First Day Amongst the Wreckage in Warsaw
- 39.. Work in the Ruins
- 40.. Destiny Gives Me a Chance
- 41.. Relations Between the Camp Inmates and the Poles
- 42.. I Belong to the Privileged Class
- 43.. Block Elders
- 44.. My Luck Runs Out
- 45.. The First Day in the Strafkommando
- 46.. Jews Bake Matzo in Hell
- 47.. Typhoid Breaks Out in the Camp
- 48.. After the Epidemic
- 49.. We Await Evacuation from Warsaw
- 50.. We March out of Warsaw
- 51.. The Second Day of the Death March from Warsaw to Dachau
- 52.. The Third Day of the March
- 53.. The Miracle of Water
- 54.. The Hellish Scenes in the Locked Train Wagons
- 55.. We Reach Dachau
- 56.. Muhldorf and Waldlager (Forest Camp)
- 57.. A New Trial
- 58.. Destiny Offers Me a New Chance
- 59.. The Klausenburg Rebbe
- 60.. The "Good Germans"
- 61.. The Last Winter in the Concentration Camp
- 62.. News from the Front
- 63.. The Rescue Operation to Munich
- 64.. Mercy, or Fear for the Future
- 65.. The Front Gets Closer
- 66.. The Devil Trips Me Up
- 67.. My Last Chance--Run Away
- 68.. The Leap to Freedom
- 69.. My Fate Hangs in the Balance
- 70.. I Win a Battle
- 71.. The Downfall of the Third Reich
- 72.. The Last Act of German Resistance
- 73.. My First Night as a Free Man
- 74.. I Become a Confidant of the U.S. Army
- 75.. Jewish Revenge
- 76.. I Tear Myself Away from Bloody German Soil
- 77.. We Arrive in Paris
- 78.. The First Contacts with My Family
- 79.. I Depart for Poland
- 80.. First Steps on Polish Soil
- 81.. Sosnowiec
- 82.. I Am Once More in Krakow
- 83.. In the City of My Birth, Ostrowiec
- Glossary
