- Summary
- The Holocaust was the systematic murder of Europe's Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Second World War. An understanding of the historical circumstances that fed the Holocaust remains the essential means of making sense of the inexplicable crimes that occurred. This commemorative volume describes Jewish life before the spread of Nazism in Europe and Nazi ideologies. The author discusses the mass murder, the death camps such as Auschwitz, the perpetrators, the witnesses, the escapees, the refugee havens and the 10,000 Kindertransport youngsters who were given safe haven in Britain. We are told stories of the resistance, acts of heroism, survivors and those who risked their lives to save the Jews. Finally, we learn about the liberation of the camps, the resettlement of the Jews and how the events are remembered now. The 15 removable documents included in this book have been carefully selected to take us beyond the horrifying statistics and remind us that each number was a person. They include: letter describing Kristallnacht and a diary extract about life in the ghetto; list of Jews to be transported, including place of departure and destination; and drawings by a child incarcerated at Theresienstadt concentration camp.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Cussans, Thomas, author.
- Published
- London : André Deutsch, 2015
- Locale
- Europe
- Contents
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Foreword
Introduction
Racial Purity: the Master Race and the Untermenschen
The Rise of Hitler: from Bierkellar to Berlin
State Security: Himmler's Empire of Terror
Consolidation: the First Camps and the Nuremberg Laws
Poland Invaded
Ghettos: Deliberate Deprivation
Operation Barbarossa
Slaughter Unleashed: Einsatzgruppen
Babi Yar: Anatomy of a Massacre
The Hunger Plan
Soviet POWs: a Mere Statistic
Murder Sanctioned: the Wannsee Conference
The First Killing Centres
Trains and Cattle Cars: Eichmann's Triumph
Gas Chambers and Crematoria
Doctors of Death
Slave Labourers
Resistance and Reprisals
Death Marches
Balkan Terror: the Ustase
Vichy France: Quotas Exceeded
Slovakia: the Hlinka Guards
Unlikely Heroes: the Righteous
Nuremberg: the Trials
Israel: Birth of a Nation
Survivors
State Terror Continued
Where was God? Men vs Monsters
Index
Further Information
Credits
- Other Authors/Editors
- Mémorial de la Shoah.
- Notes
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"In association with Mémorial de la Shoah."--Spine.
Issued in slipcase.
Includes 3 envelopes of historical documents, 5 documents in each envelope.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword -- Introduction -- Racial Purity: the Master Race and the Untermenschen -- The Rise of Hitler: from Bierkellar to Berlin -- State Security: Himmler's Empire of Terror -- Consolidation: the First Camps and the Nuremberg Laws -- Poland Invaded -- Ghettos: Deliberate Deprivation -- Operation Barbarossa -- Slaughter Unleashed: Einsatzgruppen -- Babi Yar: Anatomy of a Massacre -- The Hunger Plan -- Soviet POWs: a Mere Statistic -- Murder Sanctioned: the Wannsee Conference -- The First Killing Centres -- Trains and Cattle Cars: Eichmann's Triumph -- Gas Chambers and Crematoria -- Doctors of Death -- Slave Labourers -- Resistance and Reprisals -- Death Marches -- Balkan Terror: the Ustase -- Vichy France: Quotas Exceeded -- Slovakia: the Hlinka Guards -- Unlikely Heroes: the Righteous -- Nuremberg: the Trials -- Israel: Birth of a Nation -- Survivors -- State Terror Continued -- Where was God? Men vs Monsters -- Index -- Further Information -- Credits
