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., ISBN3-924444-09-9, pp. 130.
Koert Broersma: Buigen onder de storm. Levensschets van Philip Mechanicus 1889-1944, Van Gennep, Amsterdam 1993. ISBN90-6012-969-5 2019, ISBN9789023256236.
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.
^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. ISBN9781573562577.
