Talk:Auschwitz concentration camp#Requested move 29 December 2018

The historian [https://www.vaholocaust.org/?team=charlie-sydnor Charles Sydnor] has added a list of recommended sources for Auschwitz to his article about the camp in the USHMM Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos (volume 1, part A; for the sources, pp. 207–208). [https://www.ushmm.org/research/publications/encyclopedia-camps-ghettos/download Download]. Posting it here in case it's helpful. SarahSV ^(talk)

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• Yisrael Gutman and Michael Berenbaum, eds., Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994).
• Debórah Dwork and Robert Jan van Pelt, Auschwitz: 1270 to the Present (New York: Norton, 1996).
• Jean-Claude Pressac, Auschwitz: Technique and Operation of the Gas Chambers, trans. Peter Moss (New York: Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, 1989).
• Robert Jan van Pelt, The Case for Auschwitz: Evidence from the David Irving Trial (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002).
• Sybille Steinbacher, Auschwitz: A History, trans. Shaun Whiteside (New York: ECCO, 2005).
• Danuta Czech, Auschwitz Chronicle 1939–1945 (New York: H. Holt, 1995).
• Jonathan Webber and Connie Wilsack, Auschwitz: A History in Photographs, compiled originally by Teresa Swiebocka (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993).
• Martin Gilbert, Auschwitz and the Allies (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1981).
• Wacław Długoborski and Franciszek Piper, Auschwitz 1940–1945: Central Issues in the History of the Camps, five volumes (Oświęcim: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2000).
• Peter F. Hayes, Industry and Ideology: I.G. Farben in the Nazi Era, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).
• Josef Buszko, Auschwitz: Nazi Extermination Camp, 2nd ed. (Warsaw: Interpress Publishers, 1985).
• Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews, 3rd ed. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003).
• For the Auschwitz garrison orders: Norbert Frei et al., Standort- und Kommandanturbefehle des Konzentrationslagers Auschwitz 1940–1945, vol. 1 of Darstellungen und Quellen zur Geschichte von Auschwitz (Munich: K.G. Saur, 2000).

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Personal accounts

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• Rudolf Höss, Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz, ed. Steven Paskuly and trans. Andrew Pollinger (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1992).
• Rudolf Vrba and Alan Bestic, I Cannot Forgive (New York: Bantam, 1964).
• Primo Levi, The Drowned and the Saved, trans. Raymond Rosenthal (New York: Summit Books, 1988).
• Hermann Langbein, People in Auschwitz, trans. Harry Zohn (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2004).
• Filip Müller with Helmut Freitag, Auschwitz Inferno: The Testimony of a Sonderkommando, ed. and trans. Susanne Flatauer (London: Routledge, Kegan Paul, 1979).
• Janusz Nel Siedlecki, Krystyn Olszewski, and Tadeusz Borowski, We Were in Auschwitz, trans. Alicia Nitecki (1946; repr., New York: Welcome Rain Publishers, 2000).

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I believe that Vladek and Anja Spiegelman should be added to the list of notable inmates 2001:569:5661:E800:21D8:6E7A:4CD:DF9 (talk) 05:56, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

:{{Not done}}: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Yeshivish613 (talk) 17:45, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

:Maus is not an RS, as it is a primary source. drdr150 Yell at me Spy on me 17:27, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

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In the introduction paragraph, remove " or Oświęcim,". The Polish name is almost entirely unused, in both Polish (Polish Wikipedia uses "Auschwitz-Birkenau" and "Konzentrationslager Auschwitz," and so does the [https://www.auschwitz.org/historia/ museum]) and Anglophone historiography and news reports, both contemporary and modern, and I don't think a single reference in a newspaper (not one of record) in Canada really justifies its inclusion (per WP:CONTEXTMATTERS). CelestialOrbit (talk) 15:51, 13 April 2025 (UTC)

:Yes, in Anglophone historiography the term Oświęcim is not used, however, regardless of the Polish Wikipedia's stating of this (plus I checked, they are only stating the official name which is in fact in German, as you have mentioned as "Auschwitz-Birkenau"), however for a fact I do know that it is in fact the official term in Polish and is STILL used Atharva210 (talk) 15:30, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

:File:X mark.svg Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{Tlx|Edit extended-protected}} template. WP:CONTEXTMATTERS does not mean that you should just remove the name because it's "unused", it means use the name that makes sense based on the context. The name inclusion is important and shouldn't be removed without proper consensus. In this case, the Polish name, Oświęcim, helps with distinguishing the town in the historical context.

Usage of a term -- or lack of -- does not alone justify removing the term whole. twisted. (user | talk | contribs) 19:51, 13 April 2025 (UTC)

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Under "First mass transport of Jews" under "Camps", some countries are listed. Here however, the Netherlands is listed as 'Holland'. Please change this to 'the Netherlands'. Paul0416 (talk) 13:35, 10 May 2025 (UTC)

:{{done}} Day Creature (talk) 16:10, 10 May 2025 (UTC)

I've removed a small sentence which states {{tq|"Some inmates were given soap and a towel"}} before gassing.

However, on the Miklós Nyiszli article is states: {{tq|"Historian Gideon Greif characterized Nyiszli's assertion that "soap and towels were handed out to the victims" as they entered the gas chambers and that "toxic gas was released from the showerheads" as among the “myths and other wrong and defamatory accounts” of the Sonderkommando that flourished in the absence of first-hand testimony by surviving Sonderkommando members"}} and cites [https://web.archive.org/web/20110905053041/http://www.sonderkommando-studien.de/artikel.php?c=forschung%2Fsignificance this]

I think if the towel/soap testimony traces to one person then it's probably not necessarily accurate.

Zenomonoz (talk) 21:13, 22 May 2025 (UTC)