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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewDrawing on a wealth of evidence . . . Arad lets the terrible record speak for itself... 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.
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New York Times Book Review *
With meticulous scholarship and precise exposition Tel Aviv historian and Yad Vashem director Arad recounts all facets of Operation Reinhard, the destruction of 1.5 million Jews in occupied Poland from 1941 to 1943. . . . This comprehensive, judicious, and moving history is a remarkable contribution to Holocaust studies and is strongly recommended
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This is the authentic, exhaustive, definitive account of the least known death camps of the Nazi era.
-- Raul Hilberg
This is the authentic, exhaustive, definitive account of the least known death camps of the Nazi era.
-- Raul Hilberg, author of
The Destruction of the European JewsWith meticulous scholarship and precise exposition Tel Aviv historian and Yad Vashem director Arad recounts all facets of Operation Reinhard, the destruction of 1.5 million Jews in occupied Poland from 1941 to 1943. . . . This comprehensive, judicious, and moving history is a remarkable contribution to Holocaust studies and is strongly recommended
* Library Journal *
Drawing on a wealth of evidence . . . Arad lets the terrible record speak for itself... 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 *
Table of ContentsPreface
Introduction
Part One: The Extermination Machine
1. The Jews of the General Government, September 1939–June 1941: Deportations and Ghettoization
2. The Road to Operation Reinhard
3. Operation Reinhard: Organization and Manpower
4. Belzec: Construction and Establishing the Method of Annihilation
5. Construction of Sobibor
6. Construction of Treblinka
7. Preparing for the Deportations
8. Expulsion from the Ghettos
9. The Trains of Death
10. Belzec: March 17 to June, 1942
11. Sobibor: May to July, 1942
12. Treblinka: July 23 to August 28, 1942
13. Reorganization in Treblinka
14. The Mission of Gerstein and Pfannenstiel
15. Jewish Working Prisoners
16. Women Prisoners
17. Improving Extermination Techniques and Installations
18. The Annihilation of the Jews in the General Government
19. Deportations from Bialystok General District (Bezirk Bialystok) and Reichskommissariat Ostland
20. Transports from Other European Countries
21. The Extermination of Gypsies
22. The Economic Plunder
23. Himmler's Visit to Sobibor and Treblinka
24. The Erasure of the Crimes
Part Two: Life in the Shadow of Death
25. Portraits of the Perpetrators
26. The Prisoners' Daily Life
27. The Prisoners and the Deportees
28. Faith and Religion
29. Diseases, Epidemics, and Suicide
30. Social Life
Part Three: Escape and Resistance
31. The Cognizance and Reaction of the Victims in Occupied Poland
32. Escapes from the Trains and Spontaneous Acts of Resistance
33. Escapes from the Camps
34. The Underground in Treblinka
35. The Plan for the Uprising in Treblinka
36. August 2, 1943: The Uprising in Treblinka
37. Pursuit and Escape from Treblinka
38. Ideas and Organization for Resistance in Sobibor
39. The Underground in Sobibor
40. The Plan for the Uprising in Sobibor
41. October 14, 1943: The Uprising in Sobibor
42. Pursuit and Escape from Sobibor
43. Survival among the Local Population
44. Operation Reinhard and Reports about the Death Camps in Polish Wartime Publications
45. An Evaluation of the Uprisings and Their Results
Part Four: The Final Stage of Operation Reinhard
46. Operation Erntefest
47. The Liquidation of the Camps and the Termination of Operation Reinhard
48. Assessing the Number of Victims 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
Bibliography
Index
