Cywinski Piotr (14 results)

Tis Polish-English album shows a harrowing depiction of Auschwitz camp, functioning as "machine of death" and designed in great detail. The essence and historical background of this study is constituted by plans which were created in Auschwitz Bauleitung - construction office of the camp. This office, headed by SS-men and employing prisoners who were technicians by education, was engaged in designing of basically all the constructions built in the camp site. During the four and a half years of its existence, the Bauleitung architects prepared vast numbers of plans and maps, technical drawings, plan views and cross-sections, façade designs, models as well as furniture and interior designs, cost estimates as well as photographic documentation for the camp's ongoing needs and future expansion. Many of the plans and designs resulted in the actual construction of the buildings, but there were also plans that were never realised or simply rejected during the war. In other cases, there were several different designs for the same building, which indicates a complex decision-making process. Each stage in its creation and expansion was assessed, critically appraised, redesigned and finally approved at various administrative levels. All aspects of German construction engineering were used to build practically from scratch and within a relativity short space of time thousands of extremely diverse structures and installations: prison blocks and barracks, watch towers, crematoria, gas chambers, railway ramps, water supply networks, drainage ditches, model farms, vast factory halls, entire residential estates, army barracks, offices and hospitals. This book is primarily an album containing over 130 architectural sketches of Auschwitz, specially selected for their significance in illustrating the very conscious, conceptual way in which the camp was created and expanded. Wherever possible they have been complemented by photographs from Nazi documentation files. The narrative of this publication focuses on the main phases and areas of the development and expansion of Auschwitz, and tries as much as possible to include the main actors, that is, the SS decision-makers, the prisoner architects and engineers whom the Germans had forced to work on these projects as well as vast numbers of prisoner slave labourers who were made to toil to the point of exhaustion on major Auschwitz construction sites.

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"Auschwitz. Monograph of the Human" is the first attempt - on a global scale - to delve so deeply into human emotions inside the camp. It is a must-read for those seeking to understand what Auschwitz was all about. The book is divided into more than thirty chapters, each devoted to a separate subject. They include, among others, "Initial Shock," "Loneliness," "Death," "Hunger," "Friendship," "Empathy," "Decency," "Struggle and Resistance," "Culture and learning," "Fear," and "Hope." One great asset of the book is the extremely aptly chosen quotations from nearly 450 Auschwitz survivors. Each chapter of the book can be treated as an independent analysis of a single issue. However, it is only when read as a whole does it provide an overview of the complicated emotional world of people uprooted from their daily lives and thrown into a world that one of the prisoners called the heart of hell. In the last chapter of the book "Auschwitz. A Monograph on the Human" entitled "Conclusions", Piotr Cywi?ski wrote: "I hope that my attempt to restore the perspective about which the survivors had spoken, which we were unable to sufficiently comprehend, will fulfil my obligation to their words, memories and warnings, and with regard to them specifically. I also hope that it will serve as a proposal for a new approach in the historiography of concentration camps and extermination camps, as well as perhaps other studies of genocides?so that human experiences, studied in the polyphony of voices of memory become the focal point of research. We owe it not to the survivors, but to ourselves. And to future generations. This experience was too important, too severe and too deadly to be expressed exclusively in numbers, dates and facts. Analyses should focus on more important, far more important issues than strictly factual findings.".

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Illustrated covers. Contents clean.

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Decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy. As new. 207 pps.

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