Philip Mechanicus

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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.

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