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Philip Mechanicus

Philip Mechanicus

Dutch journalist

Philip Mechanicus, born April 17, 1889, in Amsterdam[1] and died in October 1944[2] in the Auschwitz concentration camp, was a Dutch journalist[3] and diarist.[4]

Philip Mechanicus in late 1930s.

Bibliography

  • Renata Laqueur: Schreiben im KZ. Tagebücher 1940–1945 Bearbeitet von Martina Dreisbach und mit einem Geleitwort von Rolf Wernstedt, Donat-Verlag, Bremen 1992, Zugl.: New York, Univ., Diss., ISBN 3-924444-09-9, pp. 130.
  • Koert Broersma: Buigen onder de storm. Levensschets van Philip Mechanicus 1889-1944, Van Gennep, Amsterdam 1993. ISBN 90-6012-969-5 2019, ISBN 9789023256236.
  • Mechanicus, Philip, In Depot, Polak & Vangennep, 1964, one of the first camp diaries to be released after the war. the Diary Keepers,Nina Siegal, ecco/Harper Collins, NY , 2023.P.331-2

Translated into English by Irene Gibbons as Waiting for Death in 1968.

References

  1. [1]
    "Philip Mechanicus". Joods Monument.
  2. [2]
    "Mechanicus, Philip (1889-1944) — LodView".
  3. [3]
    "NLI AUT MultiLang - Full View of Record". uli.nli.org.il.
  4. [4]
    Patterson, David (2002). "Mechanicus, Philip (1889-1944)". In Patterson, David; Berger, Alan L.; Cargas, Sarita (eds.). Encyclopedia of Holocaust Literature. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 121–123. ISBN 9781573562577.
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