Between the Wires: The Janowska Camp and the Holocaust in LVIV - Hardcover
Between the Wires: The Janowska Camp and the Holocaust in LVIV - Hardcover
by Waitman Wade Beorn (Author)
Winner of the 2025 Omeljan Pritsak Book Prize in Ukrainian Studies
Winner of the 2025 Brenner Award in Polish-Jewish Studies
Finalist for the 2024 National Jewish Book Award
Honorable Mention for the 2023-2024 American Association for Ukrainian Studies Book Prize
Based on extensive archival research, Between the Wires explores the evolution and the connection to Lviv of this rare urban camp. Waitman Wade Beorn reveals the exceptional brutality of the SS staff alongside an almost unimaginable will to survive among prisoners facing horrendous suffering, whose resistance included an armed uprising. This integrated chronicle of perpetrators, victims, and bystanders follows the history of the camp into the postwar era, including attempts to bring its criminals to justice.
Author Biography
Waitman Wade Beorn is an associate professor of history at the University of Northumbria in Newcastle, UK. He is the author of Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus and The Holocaust in Eastern Europe: At the Epicenter of the Final Solution.