04828cam a2200481 i 4500 19922039 20260410152241.9 000919t20182018cauabc b 001 0 eng d 19922039 7 cbc copycat 2 ncip 20 y-gencatlg acquire 1 shelf copy policy default rf06 2019-03-06 z-processor to HMS rf06 2019-03-06 to CALM 2017795685 9781607720249 (hardcover) 1607720248 (hardcover) 1607720256 (paperback) 9781607720256 (paperback) (OCoLC)1007037540 YDX eng YDX rda ZQP EZN KZS OCLCF GK8 UW3 DLC lccopycat e-pl--- D805.P7 G36213 2018 940.547243 23 Garliński, Józef, author. Fighting Auschwitz : the resistance movement in the concentration camp / Józef Garliński. Second English edition. Los Angeles, California : Aquila Polonica Publishing, 2018. ©2018 xxxviii, 553 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "The Garlinski Collection" Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Abbreviations -- Introduction / Professor Antony Polonsky -- Foreword / Professor M. R. D. Foot -- Preface -- Part One -- Chaper 1 -- Voluntarily to Auschwitz -- Undercover Mission -- The German Plans for Auschwitz -- Construction and Early Days of Auschwitz -- Witold Pilecki Arrives in Auschwitz -- Organization and Admininstration of the Auschwitz Camp -- Use of Prisoners in the Camp Administration -- Himmler's Visit to Auschwitz -- Notes to Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- The Development of Underground Work in the Camp -- The First 'Five' -- The Polish Underground -- Notes to Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- The Underground Organization in the Neighbourhood of the Camp -- Secret Wkork in the Hospital -- The First Reports to London -- The Organization of Labour and Underground Workers in Key Positions -- The Orchestra; Collective Responsibility for Escapes -- The German-Soviet Union War -- Notes to Chapter 3 -- Part Two -- Chapter 4 -- The First Deaths from Gassing -- The Fourth 'Five' -- Agreement Between the Military and Political Groups -- The Building of Birkenau -- Slave Labour in Auschwitz and Sub-Camps -- The Extermination of the Jews -- Notes to Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- The Underground Network in Birkenau -- Pilecki's Contact with the Czechs -- The Radio Transmitter -- The Underground's First Escapes -- Revolt in the Penal Companies -- Further Unification of the MIlitary Groups -- Notes to Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- The Women's Camp -- The Hospital -- Liquidation of Informer's -- Reassignment of Military Leadership -- Himmler's Second Visit -- Notes to Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Losses Among the Underground -- Help from Outside the Camp -- The Partisan Units -- Pilecki's Escape -- Pilecki Reports to His Home Army Superiors -- Notes to Chapter 7 -- Part Three -- Chapter 8 -- Summary of the Previous Period -- Underground Leadership After Pilecki's Escape -- Overview of Nationalities and Ethnic Groups at Auschwitz -- The Austrian Group -- The French Group -- The Soviet Group -- Other Groups -- Formation of the Kampfgruppe Auschwitz -- Notes to Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- The Surveyors' Kommando -- SS Morale -- Conditions in the Hospital -- Liquidation of the Leaders of the Polish Military Underground -- The New Commandant and Changes in the Camp -- Influence of Hermann Langbein -- Notes to Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Further Action by the Underground -- Changes at the Hospital; Obliterating Traces of Crimes -- The Book the Bunker -- Liquidation of Hungarian Jews -- Changes in the Underground -- Notes to Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Escapes and Partisans -- The Moll Plan -- The Revolt in the Sonderkommando -- Preparations for the Relief of the Camp -- The Underground's Final Actions -- Evacuation -- Notes to Chapter 11 -- Conclusion -- Afterword / Jarek Garlinski The story of underground resistance among the prisoners at the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp. Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) fast (OCoLC)fst00723014 World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924 1939-1945 fast World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements Poland Oświęcim. Underground movements, War. fast (OCoLC)fst01355184 Poland Oświęcim. fast (OCoLC)fst01217166