Never again : a history of the Holocaust / Martin Gilbert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gilbert, Martin, 1936-2015, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Jews--Germany--History.

Jews.

Jews--Persecutions--Germany--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (622 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : RosettaBooks, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A work forty years in the making-Sir Martin Gilbert's illustrated survey of the pre- and post-war history of the Jewish people in Europe. Masterfully covering such topics as pre-war Jewish life, the Warsaw Ghetto revolt, and the reflections of Holocaust survivors, Gilbert interweaves firsthand accounts with unforgettable photographs and documents, which come together to form a three-dimensional portrait of the lives of the Jewish people during one of Europe's darkest times. "This volume introduces the crime to a new generation, so that it knows of the atrocities and the seemingly futile acts of defiance taken, in the words of Judah Tenenbaum, 'for three lines in the history books.'" - Booklist

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Introduction and Acknowledgements

Chapter One European Jewry

Jewish life in Europe

Languages and culture

Religion

Self-help

Pogroms

Anti-Semitism

Europe's Inter-war Jewish population

Polish Jewry between the wars

A pre-war Jewish community in Poland

Chapter Two Nazi Germany

The Nazi programme and the Jews

The one-day boycott

Persecution, expulsion, book burning

Racism in Nazi Germany

Jewish emigration from Germany

German annexations

Kristallnacht

Jewish children find haven in Britain

Refugees rejected: the voyage of the St Louis

Those who helped

Chapter Three The Coming of War

The German conquest of Poland

The first onslaught: recollections of terror

The creation of the Ghettos

Education and culture in the Ghettos

Hunger and death in the Ghettos

Chapter Four The Holocaust Intensifies

The German invasion of the Soviet Union

The Einsatzgruppen

Deportations from Germany to the East

The Wannsee Conference

Mass deportation

Death camps

The beginning of Auschwitz

Slave labour camps

The Theresienstadt Ghetto

Holland-Westerbork

France-Drancy

Belgium-Malines

Chapter Five Survival: Hope, Resistance, Refuge

Warsaw Ghetto revolt

Warsaw Ghetto: after the revolt

Ghetto Revolts

The Kovno Ghetto

Defiance, a painter and three songs

Escape to the partisans

Hidden Children

'Righteous Gentiles'

European governments that saved Jews

Jewish resistance movements

Jews in the Allied armies

Jews in national resistance movements

Chapter Six The Deportations Continue

Charlotte Salomon's story

Further deportations to Auschwitz

Auschwitz-Birkenau

'Canada' in Auschwitz

A deportation from France to Kovno and Reval

Death camp revolts.

Chapter Seven The Last Year of the War

Jews in the Warsaw uprising of 1944

Acts of individual defiance

Anne Frank: in hiding and betrayed

Oskar Schindler and other German rescuers

The deportations from Hungary

Escape from Auschwitz: Rudolf Vrba's story

Raoul Wallenberg and other diplomats: Budapest

The Death Marches

The fate of non-Jews

Chapter Eight Liberation: Bearing Witness

The liberation of the concentration camps

The day of liberation

Liberation at Theresienstadt

'The Boys' liberated, reach a new world

The search for havens: across the oceans

War crimes trials

Cemeteries, graves and tombstones

Monuments and memorials

Mass graves

Synagogues that survive

Survivors' reflections, and reparations

Second generation

Bearing witness

'The people of the book'

'Never Again'

Chronology

Bibliography

Other Books by Martin Gilbert.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780795346743

0795346743

OCLC:

952932157