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

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Author / Creator:Arad, Yitzhak, 1926-
Imprint:Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1987.
Description:viii, 437 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/830014
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ISBN:0253342937
Notes:Includes indexes.
Bibliography: p. 401-406.
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