Encyclopedia of the Holocaust

Summary

Encyclopedia of the Holocaust is a comprehensive, authoritative one-volume resource that provides reliable, nonsensational information on this heinous and frightening period of recent history.

Written in association with Yad Vashem, the premier memorial for the Jewish people, this encyclopedia features eight essays on the Holocaust on such topics as the history of European Jewry, Jewish achievements and contributions to European culture, and the rise of anti-Semitism. The essays are followed by more than 650 entries on the major subjects of the Holocaust, including people, cities and countries, camps, resistance movements, political actions, and outcomes. More than 300 black-and-white photographs -- many never before published in one resource -- bear witness to the horrors of the Nazi regime and attest to the invincibility of the human spirit.

Among the people, places, organizations, and events covered are:

People: Irena Adamowicz; David Ben-Gurion; Winston Churchill; Charles de Gaulle; Jacob Edelstein; Adolf Eichmann; Dwight David Eisenhower; Anne Frank

Introduction

Contributors

viii

Essays

The Contribution of European Jewry to Modern Culture

(4)

The Jews of Europe Between the Two World Wars

(13)

Nazi Ideology and its Roots

(13)

The Nazi Rise to Power and the Nature of the Nazi Regime

(14)

The Destruction of European Jewry, 1933--1945

(11)

On Being a Jew in the Holocaust

(16)

The Allies and the Holocaust

(13)

The Aftermath of the Holocaust

(16)

Encyclopedic Entries

101

(396)

Chronology

497

(7)

Bibliography

504

(6)

Index

510

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The teaching of the history of the Holocaust is mandatory in many states in the U.S. as part of the secondary school curriculum. Encyclopedia of the Holocaust is a comprehensive, authoritative one-volume resource that provides reliable, nonsensational information on this heinous and frightening period of recent history. Teachers will find it an invaluable instructional tool to help students confront, understand, and never forget the people lost, the lives forever torn apart, and the events that gave rise to the persecution.
Yad Vashem, created by the Israeli Parliament in 1953 as the premier memorial for the Jewish people, contains the world's single largest repository of information on the Holocaust; its name is synonymous with the most extensive collection of published and unpublished documents on this subject in existence in one place. Written in association with Yad Vashem, this encyclopedia features eight essays on the Holocaust on such topics as the history of European Jewry, Jewish achievements and contributions to European culture, and the rise of anti-Semitism. The essays are followed by more than 650 entries on the major subjects of the Holocaust, including people, cities and countries, camps, resistance movements, political actions, and outcomes. More than 300 black-and-white photographs—many never before published in one resource—bear witness to the horrors of the Nazi regime and attest to the invincibility of the human spirit.
Coverage includes:
People: Irena Adamowicz, David Ben-Gurion, Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, Jacob Edelstein, Adolf Eichmann, Dwight David Eisenhower, Anne Frank, Joseph Goebbels, Herman Goring, Rudolf Hess, Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Hitler, Cordell Hull, Josef Mengele, Benito Mussolini, Pope Pius XII, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Oskar Schindler, Joseph Stalin, Raoul Wallenberg, Elie Wiesel, Simon Wiesenthal, and Kurt Waldheim
Places:
—Nations such as Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, The Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Soviet Union, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United States, and Yugoslavia.
—Cities such as Antwerp, Berlin, Brussels, Luxembourg, Munich, Minsk, Nuremberg, Odessa, Paris, Prague, and Warsaw
Camps: Auschwitz, Belzec, Bergen-Belsen, Blechhammer, Buchenwald, Dachau, Gross-Rosen, Pawiak Prison, Plaszow, Ravensbruck, Sachsenhausen, Sobibor, Skarzysko-Kamienna, Strasshof, Stutthof, and Treblinka
Events: The Anschluss, Anti-Nazi Boycotts, the Barbie Trial, the Bermuda Conference, Death Marches, the Eichmann Trial, Slovak National Uprising, and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Organizations: American Jewish Conference, Christian Churches, Council for German Jewry, Deutsche Ausrustungswerke, French Police, the Gestapo, Hungarian Gendarmerie, Institut d'Etudes des Questions Juives, Iron Guard, Office of Special Investigations, Red Cross International, Relief Committee for the War-stricken Jewish Population, United Nations War Crimes Commission, War Refugee Board, the Wehrmacht, and World Jewish Congress
and much more.