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Przemysłowa Concentration Camp

The Camp, the Children, the Trials

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Authors:
  1. Katarzyna Person

    1. Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw, Poland

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  2. Johannes-Dieter Steinert

    1. University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK

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  • Focuses on the only purpose-built camp for children under the age of 16 years in German-occupied Europe
  • Contributes in a major way to studies regarding children’s experience of war
  • Narrates a victim-centred story of child inmates who undertook forced labour

Part of the book series: The Holocaust and its Contexts (HOLC)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    • Katarzyna Person, Johannes-Dieter Steinert
    Pages 1-11

  3. The Camp

    • Katarzyna Person, Johannes-Dieter Steinert
    Pages 13-73

  4. The Children

    • Katarzyna Person, Johannes-Dieter Steinert
    Pages 75-161

  5. The Trials

    • Katarzyna Person, Johannes-Dieter Steinert
    Pages 163-224

  6. Conclusion

    • Katarzyna Person, Johannes-Dieter Steinert
    Pages 225-231

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 233-251
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About this book

This book explores one of the most notorious aspects of the German system of oppression in wartime Poland: the only purpose-built camp for children under the age of 16 years in German-occupied Europe. The camp at Przemysłowa street, or the Polen-Jugendverwahrlager der Sicherheitspolizei in Litzmannstadt as the Germans called it, was a concentration camp for children. The camp at Przemysłowa existed for just over two years, from December 1942 until January 1945. During that time, an unknown number of children, mainly Polish nationals, were imprisoned there and subjected to extreme physical and emotional abuse. For almost all, the consequences of atrocities which they endured in the camp remained with them for the rest of their lives. This book focuses on the establishment of the camp, the experience of the child prisoners, and the post-war investigations and trials. It is based on contemporary German documents, post-war Polish trials and German investigations, as well as dozens of testimonies from camp survivors, guards, civilian camp staff and the camp leadership

Authors and Affiliations

  • Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw, Poland

    Katarzyna Person

  • University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK

    Johannes-Dieter Steinert

About the authors

Katarzyna Person is a historian of the Holocaust working at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Poland.

Johannes-Dieter Steinert is Professor of Modern European History and Migration Studies at the University of Wolverhampton, UK.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Przemysłowa Concentration Camp

  • Book Subtitle: The Camp, the Children, the Trials

  • Authors: Katarzyna Person, Johannes-Dieter Steinert

  • Series Title: The Holocaust and its Contexts

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13948-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-13947-5Published: 04 January 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-13950-5Published: 05 January 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-13948-2Published: 03 January 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2731-5711

  • Series E-ISSN: 2731-572X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 251

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: History of World War II and the Holocaust, History of Germany and Central Europe, Memory Studies

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