Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka : the Operation Reinhard death camps /

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Author / Creator:	Arad, Yitzhak, 1926-
Imprint:	Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 1999, ©1987.
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 448 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Belzec (Concentration camp) Sobibór (Concentration camp) Treblinka (Concentration camp) Belzec (Concentration camp) Sobibór (Concentration camp) Treblinka (Concentration camp) World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland. Poland. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11109913

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ISBN:	0585278172 9780585278179 9780253113696 0253113695 0253342937 0253213053 9780253342935
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-406) and index. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Arad, Yitzhak, 1926- Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka. Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 1999, ©1987 0253342937

Table of Contents:

Part 1. 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
15. Women Prisoners
16. 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. Himmle's Visit to SObibor and Treblinka
23. The Erasure of the Crimes
Part 2. Life in the Shadow Of Death
24. Portraits of the Perpetrators
25. The Prisoners' of Daily Life
26. The Prisoners and the Deportees
27. Faith and Religion
28. Diseases, Epidemics, and Suicide
29. Social Life
Part 3. Escape and Resistance
30. 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 Teblinka
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 Uprising in Sobibor
40. October 14, 1943: The Uprising in Sobibor
41. Pursuit and Escape from Sobibor
42. Survival amoung the Local Population
43. Reports about the Death Camps in Polish Wartime Publications
44. 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

Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka : the Operation Reinhard death camps /

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