The Belzec Death Camp History, Biographies, Remembrance Chris Webb

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Webb, Chris, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Second World War.

antisemitism.

Holocaust.

nationalsocialism.

Belzec.

concentration camp.

KZ.

history.

Shoah.

Local Subjects:

Second World War.

antisemitism.

Holocaust.

nationalsocialism.

Belzec.

concentration camp.

KZ.

history.

Shoah.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (315 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hannover ibidem 2016

Summary:

This book is a comprehensive account of the Belzec death camp in Poland which was the first death camp using static gas chambers as part of the Aktion Reinhardt mass murder program. This study covers the construction and the development of the mass murder process. The story is painstakingly told from all sides, the Jewish inmates, the perpetrators, and the Polish inhabitants of Belzec village, who lived near the factory of death. A major part of this work is the Jewish Roll of Remembrance, that covers the few survivors and details of some of the Jews among the many hundreds of thousands who perished in Belzec. The book is richly illustrated with historical and modern photographs, as well as documents and drawings, some of the photographs have never before been seen in public.

Contents:

Foreword; Author's Introduction; Abbrevations used in the Footnotes; Contents; Part I The Hell Called Belzec; Chapter I Aktion Reinhardt: An Overview; Chapter II The Labor Camps In the Belzec Area; Chapter III Construction of the Death Camp November 1941-February 1942; Chapter IV Recruitment into Aktion Reinhardt: T4 & Trawniki; Chapter V Descent into Mass Murder: The First Phase March-June 1942; Chapter VI Construction of the New Gas Chambers-Camp Expansion: Second Phase, June-July 1942

Chapter VII The Killing Frenzy Visit of Kurt Gerstein and Wilhelm Pfannenstiel & The Deportations from Lvov-August 1942Chapter VIII Jewish Work Brigades; Chapter IX Transports of Death: Eyewitness Accounts; Chapter X The End of the Slaughter; Chapter XI Exhumation and Cremation November 1942-March 1943; Chapter XII The Final Days; Part II Survivors, Victims, Perpetrators, and the Aftermath; Chapter XIII Jewish Survivors and Victims; Belzec Survivors-this includes those who survived the Holocaust, or escaped from the camp but did not survive; Victims from Germany-Murdered at Belzec

Belzec Victims from other CountriesChapter XIV The Perpetrators; Richard THOMALLA Belzec Death Camp-Construction Supervisor (Latter Stages); Christian WIRTH Belzec Death Camp Commandant & Inspector of SS-Sonderkommandos Aktion Reinhard; Gottlieb Jakub HERING Second Commandant Belzec August 1942-May 1943 Temporary Commandant Sobibor; Belzec Death Camp Garrison Listed in Alphabetical Order; Chapter XV Wartime Reports About the Death Camp; Chapter XVI The Long Road to Justice; Chapter XVII The Paintings of Waclaw Kolodziejcyk; Chapter XVIII The Number of Victims; Epilogue

Illustrations and SourcesDrawings, Maps, and Sources; Documents and Sources; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Appendix 3; Selected Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Index of Names

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783838268262

3838268261

Publisher Number:

9783838268262