- Summary
- "'Einsatz Reinhardt' (Operation Reinhardt) was launched on the night of 16/17 March 1942. This code name referred to mass extermination of Jews by German and Austrian Nazis in an area created in October 1939 from part of the occupied territories of Poland called the Generalgouvernement (General Government, GG). Between March 1942 and November 1943, approximately 1,500,000 Jews were murdered in the gas chambers of Belżec, Sobibór, and Treblinka, the majority of them the citizens of the Second Polish Republic. Furthermore, several hundred thousand lost their lives in ghettos, in the Majdanek concentration camp, in labour camps, as well as during many mass executions ... 'Einsatz Reinhardt' was one of the most horrifying episodes in the history of the 20th century ... This book, a synthetic description of the Holocaust in the General Government, is aimed at readers who are not professional historians. Despite the ample specialist literature on various aspects of this issue, by Polish and international authors, no such study has been published before"--Introduction.
- Uniform Title
- Zagłada Żydów w Generalnym Gubernatorstwie. English
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Libionka, Dariusz, author.
- Published
- Lublin : Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku, 2024
- Locale
- Poland
- Other Authors/Editors
- Giebułtowski, Jerzy, translator.
Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku, issuing body.
- Notes
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Originally published in Polish in 2017.
"This book was translated as a part of the project '80. Anniversary of Aktion Reinhardt (1942-1943)'"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-304) and indexes.
