The Druggist of Auschwitz : : a Documentary Novel
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Translation of: Capesius, der Auschwitzapotheker.
The eyewitness -- The Auschwitz dispensary -- The German obsession with racial "purity" and the German language as a cure -- It was just love of order and sense of duty -- Love in the death camp -- My God, science! -- Mussulmen, the undead of Auschwitz, and the suspension of time -- The Sonderkommando uprising -- The end.
"A harrowing novel about surviving in Auschwitz and the nature of evil"--Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.
Year Published: 2011
Description: 374 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780374144067
0374144060
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Hargraves, John.
SUBJECTS
Capesius, Victor, -- 1907- -- Fiction.
Auschwitz (Concentration camp) -- Officials and employees -- Fiction.
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. -- Schutzstaffel -- Fiction.
Pharmacists -- Sighiso̦ara -- Fiction.
Concentration camp inmates -- Oświęcim -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Oświęcim -- Fiction.