Between the Wires tells for the first time the his­to­ry of the Janows­ka camp in Lviv, Ukraine. Locat­ed in a city with the third-largest ghet­to in Nazi-occu­pied Europe, Janows­ka remains one of the least-known sites of the Holo­caust, despite being one of the dead­liest. Simul­ta­ne­ous­ly a prison, a slave labor camp, a tran­sit camp to the gas cham­bers, and an exter­mi­na­tion site, this hybrid camp played a com­plex role in the Holo­caust.

Based on exten­sive archival research, Between the Wires explores the evo­lu­tion and the con­nec­tion to Lviv of this rare urban camp. Wait­man Wade Beorn reveals the excep­tion­al bru­tal­i­ty of the SS staff along­side an almost unimag­in­able will to sur­vive among pris­on­ers fac­ing hor­ren­dous suf­fer­ing, whose resis­tance includ­ed an armed upris­ing. This inte­grat­ed chron­i­cle of per­pe­tra­tors, vic­tims, and bystanders fol­lows the his­to­ry of the camp into the post­war era, includ­ing attempts to bring its crim­i­nals to justice.