Introduction: camp literature
1. Soviet camps
The Solovetsky Special Purpose Camp (Соловецкий лагерь особого назначения), 1923–1933
2. German camps
The Buchenwald Concentration Camp, post Weimar (Konzentrationslager Buchenwald, Post Weimar), 1937–1945
3. Polish camps
The Place of Isolation in Bereza Kartuska (Miejsce Odosobnienia w Berezie Kartuskiej), 1934–1939
The Labor Camp in Łambinowice (Obóz Pracy w Łambinowicach), 1945–1946
The Central Labor Camp in Jaworzno (Centralny Obóz Pracy w Jaworznie), 1945–1955
4. Spanish camps
The Concentration Camp in Miranda de Ebro (Campo de Concentración de Miranda de Ebro), 1937–1947
5. Japanese camps
Pingfang/Unit 731 (731部隊), 1939–1945
Conclusion: directions for the future
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Arkadiusz Morawiec is a Professor at the Faculty of Philology at the University of Łódź and a literary critic. His research focuses on the history of the 20th- and 21st-century Polish literature; he is especially interested in texts concerned with totalitarianism, genocide (including the Holocaust), and concentration and extermination camps. He has published eight books, including Polish Literature and Genocide (2022), and has edited and co-edited eleven monographs, including The Literature in/after Concentration and Death Camps (2017) and Zagłada wobec innych ludobójstw [Holocaust in the context of other genocides] (2020).
