About the Author

Debórah Dwork is director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity at the Graduate Center—CUNY. Author (with Robert Jan van Pelt) of Flight from the Reich, Holocaust, and Auschwitz, among other works, she lives in New York. Robert Jan van Pelt is a University Professor at the University of Waterloo. He lives in Toronto.

Reviews

"The authors use photographs, blueprints, and testimonials from survivors as they consider the question of whether Auschwitz could have happened just anywhere."
*Newsweek*

"This is truly the definitive history of the town and camp."
*Booklist*

"A milestone in Holocaust literature."
*Nechama Tee, author of Defiance: The Bielski Partisans*