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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Wearing the letter P
    sub title: Polish women as forced laborers in Nazi Germany 1939-1945
  name:
    name part: Knab, Sophie Hodorowicz
    name part: 1948-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: VerfasserIn
    role:
      role term: aut
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    place:
      place term: XD-US
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 293 Seiten Illustrationen
  abstract: "Author Sophie Knab's parents were Polish forced laborers in Germany during World War II. For years her mother was unable to discuss or answer questions about this period of her life. Compelled to learn more about her mother's experience and that of other Polish women, Knab began a personal and emotional quest. Over the course of 14 years, she conducted extensive research of postwar trial testimonies housed in archives in the U.S., London, and in Warsaw to piece together facts and individual stories from this singular and often-overlooked aspect of World War II history. As mothers, wives, daughters, and sisters, female Polish forced laborers faced a unique set of challenges and often unspeakable conditions because of their gender. Required to sew a large letter 'P' onto their jackets, thousands of women, some as young as age 12, were taken from their homes in Poland and forced to work for the Reich for months and years on end. In this important contribution to World War II history, Knab explains how it all happened, from the beginning of occupation in Poland to liberation: the roundups; the horrors of transit camps; the living and working conditions of Polish women in agriculture and industry; and the anguish of sexual exploitation and forced abortions--all under the constant threat of concentration camps. Knab draws from documents, government and family records, rare photos, and most importantly, numerous victim accounts--diaries, letters and trial testimonies--to present an unflinching, detailed portrait of the lives of female Polish laborers, finally giving these women a voice and bringing to light the atrocities that they endured"--Provided by publisher
  abstract: Recruitment and roundups -- The transit camps -- Transport, arrival and the March decrees -- Life and work in agriculture and factories -- Health, illness and hospitalization -- Pregnancy and childbearing -- Last days of the war and DP camps
  note: Sophie Hodorowicz Knab
  note: Literaturangaben
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    topic: Conscript labor
    geographic: Germany
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    topic: Women
    geographic: Germany
  subject:
    topic: Polish people
    geographic: Germany
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Women
    geographic: Germany
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Forced labor
    geographic: Germany
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Foreign workers, Polish
    geographic: Germany
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    genre: Personal narratives, Polish
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    topic: Atrocities
    geographic: Germany
  subject:
    geographic: Poland
    topic: History
    temporal: Occupation, 1939-1945
  subject:
    geographic: Germany
    topic: Social conditions
    temporal: 1933-1945
  classification: D805.G3
  classification: 940.54/05
  classification: 89.58
  identifier: 078181359X
  identifier: 9780781813594
  identifier: 2016034889
  record info:
    record content source: DE-627
    record creation date: 160912
    record change date: 20210222143625.0
    record identifier: 867619260
    language of cataloging:
      language term: ger