The Belzec Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance : 2nd, revised and updated edition With a Foreword by Jerry Steinberg / Chris Webb, Jerry Steinberg

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Webb, Chris, Author.

Contributor:

Steinberg, Jerry, Author of introduction, etc.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antisemitism.

Belzec.

Conzentration Camp.

History.

Holocaust.

KZ.

Nationalsocialsim.

Second World War.

Shoah.

Local Subjects:

Antisemitism.

Belzec.

Conzentration Camp.

History.

Holocaust.

KZ.

Nationalsocialsim.

Second World War.

Shoah.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (443 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hannover ibidem 2022

Biography/History:

Chris Webb has been studying the Holocaust for over forty years. He is author of several books on the Holocaust and regularly lectures at a number of Universities.

Chris Webb has been studying the Holocaust for over fifty years. He is the founder of the Holocaust Historical Society, in the UK, and has an extensive private archive of documents and original photographs. He has published several books on all the Aktion Reinhardt Camps and books on Auschwitz and Chelmno. Chris has worked with the BBC, on a number of documentaries,both as a consultant and provided material from his archive. He has recently taken part in a podcast for the Ghetto Fighters House in Israel, on Belzec, which was a great honor.

Summary:

This revised and updated version of Chris Webb’s comprehensive 2016 book covers the development and history of the first death camp in Poland within the Aktion Reinhardt mass murder program. Webb outlines the construction of the death camp in Poland by the National Socialists and provides a comprehensive account of who built the death camp and how the mass murder was perfected by Christian Wirth, the first Commandant, who was well versed in the mass murder by gas, from his days in the T4 Organization. The history of the death camp is retold with eyewitness testimony of some of the Jewish survivors, the Poles who helped build the death camp, and former SS members of the Garrison and German visitors to the camp. The book includes an updated and revised Jewish Roll of Remembrance, with sources provided to verify each entry. This includes the handful of survivors as well as a comprehensive record of the victims, Polish and Czech Jews, and those deported from the Reich to Belzec. The book also provides a detailed record of the leading figures of Aktion Reinhardt, including Odilo Globocnik, Christian Wirth, and Hermann Hofle, and members of the SS Garrison who served in Belzec. The biographies record their histories, what they did at Belzec, and their fates, where known. Also covered are the post-war testimonies, trials, and excavations. A number of historic and contemporary photographs, some of which have never been published before, and documents and drawings enhance this edition.

Contents:

Intro

Introduction

Foreword

Author's Introduction

Abbreviations for Sources used in the book

Part I The Hell Called Bełżec

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 &amp

Trawniki

Chapter V Descent into Mass Murder. The First Phase March-June 1942

Chapter VI Camp Expansion-New Gas Chambers. Second Phase: June-July 1942

Chapter VII The Killing Frenzy. Visit of Kurt Gerstein and Wilhelm Pfannenstiel &amp

The Deportations from Lemberg-August 1942

Chapter 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

Chapter XIV The Perpetrators

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

Chapter XIX The Archaeological Excavations

Epilogue

Illustrations and Sources

Drawings, Maps and Sources

Documents and Sources

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Appendix 3

Appendix 4

Selected Bibliography

Acknowledgements

Index of Names.

Other Format:

Print version: Webb, Chris The Belzec Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance

ISBN:

3-8382-7696-5

Publisher Number:

9783838276960