12°, 150 p., covers and spine covered with wine-red marbled paper and cloth tape, thread-stitched.
Provenance: pasted green note with the library regulations of Dachau concentration camp (flyleaf p.1), handwritten note above (illegible); control slip of Dachau concentration camp with entry "23 Juni 1941 neu gebunden" (flyleaf p.2); handwritten in ink "Otto Bermann" (Schmutztitel);
red stamp "Lagerbücherei" and signature in ink "XI 1657" (title page); red stamp "Lagerbücherei" (penultimate page).
Provenance
Donation to the KZ-Gedenkstätte Dachau (Dachau concentration camp memorial).
The donor's father was a soldier in the US Army in Germany and brought this book home with him after the end of World War II.
Otto Bermann was deported to Dachau concentration camp in May 1938 and transferred to Buchenwald concentration camp in September 1938, from where he was released at the end of April 1939. He still managed to escape to Great Britain in 1939; his name can be found in the 1939 list of names of the Kitchener Camps (external link).
Literature / Source
Zur Lagerbücherei im KZ Dachau: Seela, Thorsten: Die Lagerbücherei im KZ Dachau, in: Dachauer Hefte 7 (November 1991), S. 34-46; Kabelka, Werner: Die Häftlingsbibliothek des Konzentrationslagers Dachau (1933-1945). Saarbrücken 2008.
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Contact
KZ-Gedenkstätte Dachau
Alte Römerstr. 75
85221 Dachau
Germany
