The Operation Reinhard Death Camps, Revised and Expanded Edition : Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka / Yitzhak Arad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arad, Yitzhak, 1926-2021, author.

Standardized Title:

Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Belzec (Concentration camp).

Sobibór (Concentration camp).

Treblinka (Concentration camp).

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Nazi concentration camps--Poland.

Nazi concentration camps.

Operation Reinhard, Poland, 1942-1943.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

Revised and expanded edition.

Place of Publication:

Jerusalem : Yad Vashem, 2018

Summary:

Under the code name Operation Reinhard, more than one and a half million Jews were murdered between 1942 and 1943 in the concentration camps of Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka, located in Nazi-occupied Poland. Unlike more well-known camps, which were used both for slave labor and extermination, these camps existed purely to murder Jews. Few victims survived to tell their stories, and the camps were largely forgotten after they were dismantled in 1943. The Operation Reinhard Death Camps bears eloquent witness to this horrific tragedy. This newly revised and expanded edition includes new material on the history of the Jews under German occupation in Poland; the execution and timing of Operation Reinhard; information about the ghettos in Lublin, Warsaw, Krakow, Radom, and Galicia; and updated numbers of the victims who were murdered during deportations. In addition to documenting the horror of the camps, Yitzhak Arad recounts the stories of those courageous enough to struggle against the Nazis and their "final solution." Arad's work retrieves the experiences of Operation Reinhard's victims and survivors from obscurity and exposes a terrible chapter in humanity's history.

Contents:

The Jews of the general government, September 1939 - June 1941 : deportations and ghettoization

The road to Operation Reinhard

Operation Reinhard : organization and manpower

Belzec : construction and establishing the method of annihilation

Construction of Sobibor

Construction of Treblinka

Preparing for the deportations

Expulsion from the ghettos

The trains of death

Belzec : March 17 to June 1942

Sobibor : May to July 1942

Treblinka : July 23 to August 28, 1942

Reorganization in Treblinka

The mission of Gerstein and Pfannenstiel

Jewish working prisoners

Women prisoners

Improving extermination techniques and installations

The annihilation of the Jews in the general government

Deportations from Bialystok general district (Bezirk Bialystok) and Reichskommissariat Ostland

Transports from other European countries

The extermination of Gypsies

The economic plunder

Himmler's visit to Sobibor and Treblinka

The erasure of the crimes

Portraits of the perpetrators

The prisoners' daily life

The prisoners and the deportees

Faith and religion

Diseases, epidemics, and suicide

Social life

The cognizance and reaction of the victims in occupied Poland

Escapes from the trains and spontaneous acts of resistance

Escapes from the camps

The underground in Treblinka

The plan for the uprising in Treblinka

August 2, 1943 : the uprising in Treblinka

Pursuit and escape from Treblinka

Ideas and organization for resistance in Sobibor

The underground in Sobibor

The plan for the uprising in Sobibor

October 14, 1943 : the uprising in Sobibor

Pursuit and escape from Sobibor

Survival among the local population

Operation Reinhard and reports about the death camps in Polish wartime publications

An evaluation of the uprisings and their results

Operation Erntefest ("Harvest Festival")

The liquidation of the camps and the termination of Operation Reinhard

Assessing the number of victims of Operation Reinhard.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-253-02579-6

OCLC:

1045050170