Holocaust maps -3

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Try Virtual Auschwitz at
http://www.bitlink.com/~rsl/responses/virtualauschwitz.html
for maps and photos from Auschwitz and Buchenwald

A map of Buchenwald is at http://www.buchenwald.de/memorial/lager-e.htm
but it's awfully small on my 13" monitor.

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Konnilyn G. Feig. HITLER'S DEATH CAMPS: THE SANITY OF MADNESS.

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Check out Dwork and van Pelt 'Auschwitz 1270 to the Present' center section.

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If you can get a copy of the Encyclopedia Judaica on page 871 of the 3rd
volume there is
a map of Birkenau.  My other suggestion is to contact the library at the Simon
Wiesenthal
Center.  The head librarian is named Adaire Klein and her e-mail is
aklein@weisenthal.com but probably anoyone there can answer your inquiry.
Good luck.

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Konnilyn Feig's book _Hitler's Death Camps_ has the drawings of the death
camps.

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Re Auschwitz:  Take a look of a Book called "Auschwitz  1270- To The Present"
by Deborah Dwork and Robert Jan Van Pelt.
Published in 1966, W.W. Norton & Company Inc.

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Try the book, *Auschwitz: 1270 to the Present* by Deborah Dwork and
Robert Jan van Pelt. Van Pelt is an architect who has studied the
building plans of Auschwitz. Also check out his book, *Architectural
Principles in the Age Of Historicism*.

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I suggest you get in touch with the Lohamei Hagetaot Museum at the Kibbutz
of the same name. I think anything addressed to them
Lohamei Hagetaot Museum
Kibbutz Lohamei Hagetaot
Western Galilee
Israel
should reach them. If you are in America, perhaps the Holocaust Museum as
LA can help you. another option is Yad vaShem in Jerusalem, and there, too,
I am sure they can be reached as
YAD VASHEM Museum
Jerusalem
Israel

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You probably know already but there is the book by the Canadian
architect, Robert van Pelt , written with Deborah Dwork, "Auschwitz",
Norton, 1996, which contains extensive architectural material. Van Pelt also
did an  interesting TV documentary showing the blueprints shown on PBS Nova
as I recall two years ago: it had the title, I think, "Nazi Designers of
Death" (originally a British production , 1994, with the title Blueprints of
Death, or similar.
For Treblinka, you might try writing to the Ghetto Fighter's Museum (Kibbutz
Lohamei ha-Ghettaot), near Ace, Israel, rand asking for photos and info on
the model of Treblinka they have there that was used in the trial of
Eichmann.  They also have a large model of the Warsaw Ghetto. I expect they
have a Web  site; they certainly have a Holocaust Education program and
institute, which you yourself might be interested in attending as it offers
bursaries and expenses for American secondary school teachers to participate
in short summer programs which are very well done.
Best wishes,

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There is a book about the architecture of Auschwitz by Robert Jan von
Pelt.  This is not his book Auschwitz coauthored with Debrah Dwork but
both books have extensive maps and pictures of the camp. There is also a
model of the Crematorium at Auschwitz in the Holocaust Museum in DC's
exhibit but this may be too much for your students.  Pcitures of the
model and a map (aerial photograph from the National Archives) is in
Michael Berenbaum's The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as
Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.  The
Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum has put out a book called: Auschwitz: A
History in Photographs with tons of maps.

There is a model of the Lodz Ghetto also in the Holocaust Museum's
exhibit done by a survivor.  A picture of the model is on page 81 of
Berenbaum's the World Must know.  There's maps of the Lodz Ghetto in the
abridged english version of Chonicle of the Lodz Ghetto and Alan
Adelson's book of documents on the Ghetto: Inside a Ghetto under Siege.
These are both commonly available.

There's a map of the Warsaw Ghetto in the Holocaust Museum exhibit.
Unfortunately I am not familiar enough with books on Theresienstadt or
Buchenwald, etc to direct you to books on that.  Hopefully another
member of the list will offer that.

Good luck.
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I am a subscriber to H-Holocaust listserver and noted your forwarded
request for maps, plans of concentration camps.  One source that I have
used is the Historical Atlas of the Holocaust published by the U. S.
Holocaust Museum. It has layouts of the some concentration camps and
ghettos.

I am an interviewer for the Survivors of the Shoah: Visual History
Foundation [est. by Steven Speilberg], and in my interviewing of
survivors, I use the Historical Atlas to trace their experiences during
the Holocaust. I recently presented my work with the Foundation at SUNY
Stony Brook on Long Island and looked for maps everywhere, including on
the internet. I finally asked the Museum for permission to use the maps
from the Atlas; they gave permission.

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