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The Dentist of Auschwitz: A Memoir

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Benjamin Jacobs
2001
Published by: The University Press of Kentucky
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In 1941 Berek Jakubowicz (now Benjamin Jacobs) was deported from his Polish village and remained a prisoner of the Reich until the final days of the war. His possession of a few dental tools and rudimentary skills saved his life. Jacobs helped assemble V1 and V2 rockets in Buchenwald and Dora-Mittelbau; spent a year and a half in Auschwitz, where he was forced to remove gold teeth from corpses; and survived the RAF attack on three ocean liners turned prison camps in the Bay of Lubeck. This is his story.

Table of Contents

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Cover

Title page Copyright page

Content

pp. v

MAPS AND FIGURES

pp. vi

Preface

pp. vii-viii

1. Deportation

pp. 1-3

2. A Small Shtetl in Poland

pp. 4-10

3. The Blitzkrieg

pp. 11-17

4. German Occupation

pp. 18-24

5. The Ghetto in Dobra

pp. 25-31

6. Steineck

pp. 32-51

7. Zosia

pp. 52-60

8. Krusche

pp. 61-74

9. Gutenbrunn

pp. 75-90

10. The Murder of My Family

pp. 91-111

11. On Cattle Cars to Auschwitz

pp. 112-117

12. Auschwitz

pp. 118-132

13. F

pp. 133-140

14. The Dentist of Auschwitz

pp. 141-165

15. The Death March

pp. 166-171

16. Dora-Mittelbau

pp. 172-179

17. Disaster on the Baltic Sea

pp. 180-187

18. Inferno

pp. 188-193

19. Where Do We Go?

pp. 194-204

20. Postwar Germany

pp. 205-213

Postscript

pp. 214-217

Appendix A: Sinking of the Cop Arcona

pp. 218-219

Appendix B: For the Record

pp. 220-222

Appendix C: The Record of Prisoner 14 1 129

pp. 223-224

Index

pp. 225-231
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