Chełmno

Chełmno
Author: Shmuel Krakowski
Publisher: Lambda
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN:

The Holocaust Sites of Europe

The Holocaust Sites of Europe
Author: Martin Winstone
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2024-01-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 1350332054

The Holocaust – the murder of approximately six million Jewish men, women and children by Nazi Germany and its collaborators in the Second World War – was a crime of unprecedented and unparalleled proportions, perpetrated in innumerable locations across the European continent. Now in its third edition, The Holocaust Sites of Europe is the most comprehensive and accessible guide to these sites, serving as both a work of historical reference and a practical resource for visitors to them today. It includes all major Holocaust sites in Europe, covering more than 20 countries and encompassing not only iconic locations such as Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen, but also lesser known yet similarly significant sites like Maly Trostenets and Sajmište. It addresses extermination, forced labour and concentration camps, massacre sites, and cities which were homes to major Jewish populations and – often – ghettos, as well as Nazi 'euthanasia' centres and locations associated with the genocide of Roma and Sinti. In so doing, the book also covers the many museums and memorials which commemorate the Holocaust. This new edition has been fully updated to reflect developments which have affected sites in the 2010s and 2020s, ranging from the establishment of new museums to growing threats from climate change and state-sponsored distortion of history. The Holocaust Sites of Europe is thus an indispensable and sensitive guide to both the history and the modern reality of the most traumatic sites in European history."

The Red Cross and the Holocaust

The Red Cross and the Holocaust
Author: Jean-Claude Favez
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 1999-11-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521415873

This book presents a startling assessment of the role of the Red Cross in the Holocaust.

Chełmno and the Holocaust

Chełmno and the Holocaust
Author: Patrick Montague
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2012-03-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807869414

As the first extermination camp established by the Nazi regime and the prototype of the single-purpose death camps of Treblinka, Sobibor, and Belzec, the Chelmno death camp stands as a crucial but largely unexplored element of the Holocaust. This book is the first comprehensive work in any language to detail all aspects of the camp's history, organization, and operations and to remedy the dearth of information in Holocaust literature about Chelmno, which served as a template for the Nazis' "Final Solution." Patrick Montague reveals events leading to the establishment of the camp, how the mobile killing squad employed the world's first gas van to terminate the lives of mentally-ill patients, and the assembly-line procedure employed in the camp to commit genocide on the Jewish population. Based on over 20 years of careful research, this book provides the first single-volume history of the camp and its handful of survivors and includes previously unpublished first-hand accounts and photographs. Chelmno and the Holocaust is a vital contribution to a critically important chapter in the history of the Holocaust.

Historical Dictionary of the Holocaust

Historical Dictionary of the Holocaust
Author: Jack R. Fischel
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2010-07-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 0810874857

This second edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Holocaust includes an updated chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant events and personalities.

Journey to Poland

Journey to Poland
Author: Maurizio Cinquegrani
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2018-06-30
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 147440359X

Explores the representation of revenge from Classical to early modern literature

The Coming of the Holocaust

The Coming of the Holocaust
Author: Peter Kenez
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2013-09-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 110743596X

The Coming of the Holocaust aims to help readers understand the circumstances that made the Holocaust possible. Peter Kenez demonstrates that the occurrence of the Holocaust was not predetermined as a result of modern history but instead was the result of contingencies. He shows that three preconditions had to exist for the genocide to take place: modern anti-Semitism, meaning Jews had to become economically and culturally successful in the post-French Revolution world to arouse fear rather than contempt; an extremist group possessing a deeply held, irrational, and profoundly inhumane worldview had to take control of the machinery of a powerful modern state; and the context of a major war with mass killings. The book also discusses the correlations between social and historical differences in individual countries regarding the success of the Germans in their effort to exterminate Jews.

The Death Camps

The Death Camps
Author: William W. Lace
Publisher:
Total Pages: 120
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN:

Describes the establishment of concentration camps throughout Nazi-occupied territory whose sole purpose was to exterminate Jews and other people considered undesirable by Hitler and his followers.