| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 448 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; PART ONE: THE EXTERMINATION MACHINE; 1 The ""Final Solution"": From Shooting to Gas; 2 Operation Reinhard: Organization and Manpower; 3 Belzec: Construction and Experiments; 4 Construction of Sobibor; 5 Construction of Treblinka; 6 Preparing for the Deportations; 7 Expulsion from the Ghettos; 8 The Trains of Death; 9 Belzec: March 17 to June, 1942; 10 Sobibor: May to July, 1942; 11 Treblinka: July 23 to August 28, 1942; 12 Reorganization in Treblinka; 13 The Mission of Gerstein and Pfannenstiel; 14 Jewish Working Prisoners |
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15 Women Prisoners16 Improved Extermination Techniques and Installations; 17 The Annihilation of the Jews in the General Government; 18 Deportations from Bialystok General District and Ostland; 19 Transports from Other European Countries; 20 The Extermination of Gypsies; 21 The Economic Plunder; 22 Himmler's Visit to Sobibor and Treblinka; 23 The Erasure of the Crimes; PART TWO: LIFE IN THE SHADOW OF DEATH; 24 Portraits of the Perpetrators; 25 The Prisoners' Daily Life; 26 The Prisoners and the Deportees; 27 Faith and Religion; 28 Diseases, Epidemics, and Suicide; 29 Social Life |
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PART THREE: ESCAPE AND RESISTANCE30 The Cognizance and Reaction of the Victims in Occupied Poland; 31 Escapes from the Trains and Spontaneous Acts of Resistance; 32 Escapes from the Camps; 33 The Underground in Treblinka; 34 The Plan for the Uprising in Treblinka; 35 August 2, 1943: The Uprising in Treblinka; 36 Pursuit and Escape from Treblinka; 37 Ideas and Organization for Resistance in Sobibor; 38 The Underground in Sobibor; 39 The Plan for the Uprising in Sobibor; 40 October 14, 1943: The Uprising in Sobibor; 41 Pursuit and Escape from Sobibor; 42 Survival among the Local Population |
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43 Reports about the Death Camps in Polish Wartime Publications44 An Evaluation of the Uprisings and Their Results; 45 Operation Erntefest; 46 The Liquidation of the Camps and the Termination of Operation Reinhard; Epilogue; APPENDIX A The Deportation of the Jews from the General Government, Bialystok General District, and Ostland; APPENDIX B The Fate of the Perpetrators of Operation Reinhard; Bibliographic Key to the Notes; Notes; Index |
| Summary |
"" ... Mr. Arad reports as a controlled and effective witness for the prosecution ... Mr. Arad's book, with its abundance of horrifying detail, reminds us of how far we have to go.""--New York Times Book Review"" ... some of the most gripping chapters I have ever read ... the authentic, exhaustive, definitive account of the least known death camps of the Nazi era.""--Raul HilbergArad, historian and principal prosecution witness at the Israeli trial of John Demjanjuk (accused of being Treblinka's infamous ""Ivan the Terrible""), uses primary materials to reveal the complete story |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-406) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Belzec (Concentration camp)
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Sobibór (Concentration camp)
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Treblinka (Concentration camp)
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| SUBJECT |
Belzec (Concentration camp) fast |
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Sobibór (Concentration camp) fast |
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Treblinka (Concentration camp) fast |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland.
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HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
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Poland
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0585278172 |
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9780585278179 |
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9780253113696 |
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0253113695 |
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