"This absorbing and captivating nonfiction account (with never-before-published photographs) offers readers an in-depth anthropological and historical look into the lives of those who suffered and survived Breendonk concentration camp during the Holocaust of World War II"-- Provided by publisher.

The first prisoners: September-December 1940 -- 1. The arrest of Israel Neumann -- 2. Building Breendonk -- 3. Facing the wall -- 4. The first prisoners of room 1 -- 5. The artist of room 1 -- 6. Watching the prisoners -- 7. The Zugführer of room 1 -- 8. A day at Breendonk -- The first deaths: January-June 1941 -- 9. Changes -- 10. The first escape -- 11. Despair -- 12. A picture-perfect camp -- Camp of the creeping death: June 1941-June 1942 -- 13. Operation Solstice -- 14. Prisoner number 59 -- 15. A substitution -- 16. The rivals -- 17. The plant eaters -- 18. July 24, 1941 -- 19. The hell of Breendonk -- 20. The first transport -- 21. A temporary lull -- A second camp: July-August 1942 -- 22. The Sammellager in Mechelen -- 23. Transport II to Auschwitz-Birkenau -- Camp of terror: September 1942-April 1944 -- 24. The postal workers of Brussels -- 25. The first executions -- 26. The Arrestanten -- 27. The bunker -- 28. January 6, 1943 -- 29. The winter of 1942-43 -- 30. Transport XX -- 31. The chaplain of the executions -- 32. Two heroes of Breendonk -- 33. The twelve from Senzeilles -- The many endings of Auffanglager Breendonk: May 1944-May 1945 -- 34. Evacuating Breendonk -- 35. Journey from Mauthausen -- 36. End of the supermen -- 37. The final transport from Neuengamme -- After the war: 1945-present -- 38. The war crimes trials -- 39. The final death -- 40. Breendonk today -- Afterword: What happened to some Breendonk prisoners and their families -- Appendixes -- 1. Main deportations from Auffanglager Breendonk -- 2. Deportations from SS-Sammellager Mechelen.