The Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau

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ISBN: 9781032202440

by Sarah M. Cushman, Joanne Pettitt, Dominic Williams

1st Edition

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Print ISBN	9781032202440
eText ISBN	9781040394434
Publisher	Routledge
Publishing Year	2026
Edition	1st Edition
Language	English
Pages	450

Edited by Sarah M. Cushman, Joanne Pettitt, and Dominic Williams, the 1st Edition of The Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau delivers a comprehensive academic inquiry into Auschwitz-Birkenau as a physical site and an enduring symbol of Nazi genocide. The volume establishes foundational context for second-year undergraduates, graduate students, and specialized researchers studying Holocaust history.

The handbook synthesizes historical scholarship on distinct prisoner populations, including Romani prisoners, Soviet prisoners of war, and children within the camp complex. Essays analyze daily operational realities and physical survival, examining topics such as food distribution, systemic hunger, the construct of the "Muselmann", and persistent Jewish religious activity under extreme conditions.

Spanning 450 pages and including 11 black-and-white illustrations, the text bridges archival evidence with modern historiographical debates. It functions as a structured reference text for upper-division university courses, curriculum development, and independent research projects.

Chapter 1: Auschwitz and the SS Concentration Camp System
Chapter 2: Mapping Auschwitz
Chapter 3: Thinking Auschwitz Spatially
Chapter 4: The Auschwitz Environment
Chapter 5: Auschwitz and Its Locale
Chapter 6: O Drom o Rromano k’o Aušvic (The Romani Road to Auschwitz)
Chapter 7: The Theresienstadt Family Camp in Auschwitz
Chapter 8: Prisoner of War Camp Auschwitz
Chapter 9: Children in Auschwitz-Birkenau
Chapter 10: The Auschwitz Sonderkommando
Chapter 11: Food and Hunger at Auschwitz
Chapter 12: The “Muselmann” in Auschwitz
Chapter 13: Music Making as Community Formation in Auschwitz-Birkenau: The Case of Krystyna Żywulska
Chapter 14: Torah and Mitzvahs in Hell: Jewish Religious Activity in Auschwitz-Birkenau
Chapter 15: Auschwitz and Its Imagery
Chapter 16: SS Affiliated Women in Auschwitz
Chapter 17: Civilian Workers on Site
Chapter 18: The First Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, 1963–1965
Chapter 19: Auschwitz and Fiction
Chapter 20: Seeing Auschwitz: The Nazi Gaze in Auschwitz Perpetrator Fiction
Chapter 21: “Auschwitz Still Lives and Breathes in Me”: Auschwitz-Birkenau in Romani Writing
Chapter 22: Images of Auschwitz in Graphic Novels
Chapter 23: Filming Auschwitz
Chapter 24: Hermann Langbein: Remembering as Political Practice
Chapter 25: Charlotte Delbo
Chapter 26: Arriving at Auschwitz with Elie Wiesel
Chapter 27: Born of Fire: Yehiel Dinur (Ka-Tzetnik)’s Literary Testimony to Auschwitz
Chapter 28: Primo Levi: The Duty of Testimony
Chapter 29: The Meaning of the Barbed Wire: Auschwitz’s Place and Holocaust Memory in Brazil
Chapter 30: Translating and Writing Auschwitz into Chinese Literature
Chapter 31: Polish Perceptions of Auschwitz
Chapter 32: Representing Horror: Auschwitz-Birkenau in Israeli Documentary Cinema
Chapter 33: Auschwitz as a Political-Philosophical Problem
Chapter 34: "We Remind People Daily. Again and Again": The Role(s) of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum’s Social Media
Chapter 35: Tourism at Auschwitz