The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, Volume II
Ghettos in German-Occupied Eastern Europe

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https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt2050wk1Contributor(s)
Megargee, Geoffrey P. (editor)
Dean, Martin (editor)
Browning, Christopher R. (editor)
Language
EnglishAbstract
This volume offers a comprehensive account of how the Nazis conducted the Holocaust throughout the scattered towns and villages of Poland and the Soviet Union. It covers more than 1,150 sites, including both open and closed ghettos. Regional essays outline the patterns of ghettoization in 19 German administrative regions. Each entry discusses key events in the history of the ghetto; living and working conditions; activities of the Jewish Councils; Jewish responses to persecution; demographic changes; and details of the ghetto's liquidation. Personal testimonies help convey the character of each ghetto, while source citations provide a guide to additional information. Documentation of hundreds of smaller sites-previously unknown or overlooked in the historiography of the Holocaust-make this an indispensable reference work on the destroyed Jewish communities of Eastern Europe.
Keywords
History; European Studies; Slavic Studies; Jewish StudiesISBN
9780253002020, 9780253355997Publisher
Indiana University Press; Indiana University Press and the United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumPublisher website
https://iupress.org/Publication date and place
2012Classification
European history
Social and cultural history