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This is the story of an international forced labour camp for women, the largest of the auxiliary women's camps attached to KZ Buchenwald in Germany. It was the place where the Jewish prisoners sang the satiric camp ""anthem"": ""Hasag is our father, the best father there is! / He promises us - long years of happiness! / In Leipzig a paradise on earth"". Was Hasag-Leipzig really a ""paradise"" compared to other Nazi installations, in terms of the treatment of prisoners and their living conditions? This study provides answers to this question as it depicts the camp for 5500 women from 18 countries, among them 1200 Jewish prisoners brought there from Poland. Special attention is paid here to the cultural activities, adding a refreshing new dimension to the scholarly work, and bringing the reader closer to the alien, unfamiliar world known as the Hasag-Leipzig Women's Camp.

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'Dr Karay's study of women in a labour camp during the Holocaust is a unique one, merging a touching personal narrative with an in-depth historical analysis of the life of Jewish and non-Jewish women inmates in a forced setting.' Dr Judith Tydor Baumel

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Felicja Karay, born in Poland, was in three labour camps during the Holocaust. She received a Ph.D in history for her research on the Skarzysko-Kamienna forced labour camp at Tel Aviv University. This was published in English in 1996 as Death Comes in Yellow (Harwood Academic Publishers). The study of Hasag-Leipzig was carried out under the auspices of the Diaspora Research Institute of Tel Aviv University. Dr Karay has published materials for teaching about the Holocaust, as well as numerous papers on forced labour and Jewish labour camps under the Nazi regime.

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