The graphic history of the Nazi attempt to destroy the Jews of
Europe during the Second World War is illustrated in this series of
333 detailed maps.
The maps, and the text and photographs that accompany them,
powerfully depict the fate of the Jews between 1933 and 1945, while
also setting the chronological story in the wider context of the
war itself. The maps include:
- historical background from the effects of anti-Jewish violence
between 1880 and 1933 to the geography of the existing Jewish
communities before the advent of the Nazis
- the beginning of the violence from the destruction of the
synagogues in November 1938 to Jewish migrations and deportations,
the ghettos, and the establishment of the concentration camps and
death camps throughout German-dominated Europe
- the spread of Nazi rule the fate of the Jews throughout Europe
including Germany, Austria, Poland, Greece, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria,
Russia, Denmark, Norway, France, Holland, Belgium, Italy, and the
Baltic States
- Jewish revolts and resistance acts of armed resistance,
fighting in the forests, individual acts of courage
- Jews in hiding escape routes, Christians who helped Jews
- the death marches the advance of the Allies and the liberation
of the camps, the survivors, and the final death toll.
This revised edition includes a new section which gives an
insight into the layout and organization of some of the most
significant places of the Holocaust, including Auschwitz, Treblinka
and the Warsaw ghetto, maps that will be especially useful to those
visiting the sites.
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