Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka : the Operation Reinhard death camps / Yitzhak Arad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arad, Yitzhak, 1926-2021.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Nazi concentration camps.

World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.

World War, 1939-1945.

Treblinka (Concentration camp).

Sobibór (Concentration camp).

Belzec (Concentration camp).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (449 p.)

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

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 Hilberg Arad, 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 of these Nazi death camps.

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

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

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

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

Notes:

Includes indexes.

Bibliography: p. 401-406.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-282-07929-8

OCLC:

570895876