An edition of The dentist of Auschwitz (1995)

The dentist of Auschwitz

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An edition of The dentist of Auschwitz (1995)

The dentist of Auschwitz

a memoir

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This book is unique among Holocaust memoirs. It is the story of Berek Jakubowicz (now Benjamin Jacobs), a Jewish dental student who in 1941 was deported from his Polish Village to a Nazi labor camp and remained a prisoner of the Reich until the last days of the war.

Shunted between labor camps and concentration camps by cattle car and forced marches, Jakubowicz was interned in Buchenwald and Dora-Mittelbau, where he and other inmates assembled V1 and V2 rockets under the direction of Wernher von Braun. He also spent a year and a half in Auschwitz, where he came into contact with the notorious Josef Mengele and, in 1944, witnessed the death of his father after a beating by a Kapo.

In May 1945, Jakubowicz and 15,000 fellow inmates were marched to the Bay of Lubeck and imprisoned on three German ocean liners. In one of the most shocking and least known tragedies of World War II, these "floating concentration camps" were strafed and sunk by the RAF, and only 1,600 of the prisoners survived.

Jacobs is convinced that he owes his survival through four years of atrocities and near-starvation to his possession of a few dental tools and rudimentary skills. The Nazis commandeered his services, first to work on the teeth of inmates and later on those of SS officers. At Auschwitz he was even forced to work on corpses, cracking their jaws to remove gold teeth and fillings.

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Language
English
Pages
231

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Cover of: The Dentist of Auschwitz
The Dentist of Auschwitz: A Memoir
April 2001, University Press of Kentucky
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Cover of: The dentist of Auschwitz
The dentist of Auschwitz: a memoir
1995, University Press of Kentucky
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Lexington

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
940.53/18/092
Library of Congress
D804.3 .J32 1995, D804.3 .J32 1994

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 231 p., [8] p. of plates :
Number of pages
231

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1089686M
Internet Archive
dentistofauschwi00jaco
ISBN 10
0813118735
LCCN
94013791
OCLC/WorldCat
30356024
Library Thing
327324
Goodreads
3546753

Excerpts

On the morning of May 5, 1941, three ancient trucks labored along a Polish country road, carrying 167 Jews from Dobra, a village in the Warthegau region of Poland, to a destination known only to their captors.
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