Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka

Records the history of the Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka death camps in Nazi-occupied Poland

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Yitzhak Arad

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" -Raul HilbergArad, historian and principal prosecution witness at the Israeli trial of John Demjanjuk (accused of being Treblinka's infamous "Ivan the Terrible"), uses primary materials to reveal the complete story of these Nazi death camps.

Zusammenfassung
The complete history of the Operation Reinhard death camps.

Inhalt

PART ONE THE EXTERMINATION MACHINE

1. The Final Solution: From Shooting to Gas
2. Operation Reinhard: Organization and Manpower
3. Belzec: Construction and Experiments
4. Construction of Sobibor
5. Construction of Treblinka
6. Preparing for the Deportations
7. Expulsion from the Ghettos
8. The Trains of Death
9. Belzec: March 17 to June, 1942
10. Sobibor: May to July, 1942
11. Treblinka: July 23 to August 28, 1942
12. Reorganization in Treblinka
13. The Mission of Gerstein and Pfannenstiel
14. Jewish Working Prisoners
15. Women Prisoners
16. Improved Extermination Techniques and Installations
17. The Annihilation of the Jews in the General Government
18. Deportations from Bialystok General District and Ostland
19. Transports from Other European Countries
20. The Extermination of Gypsies
21. The Economic Plunder
22. Himmler's Visit to SObibor and Treblinka
23. The Erasure of the Crimes
    PART TWO LIFE IN THE SHADOW OF DEATH
    24 Portraits of the Perpetrators
    25 The Prisoners' of Daily Life
    26 The Prisoners and the Deportees
    27 Faith and Religion
    28 Diseases, Epidemics, and Suicide
    29 Social Life
    PART THREE ESCAPE AND RESISTANCE
    30 The Cognizance and Reaction of the Victims in Occupied Poland
    31 Escapes from the Trains and Spontaneous Acts of Resistance
    32 Escapes from the Camps
    33 The Underground in Teblinka
    34 The Plan for the Uprising in Treblinka
    35 August 2, 1943: The Uprising in Treblinka
    36 Pursuit and Escape from Treblinka
    37 Ideas and Organization for Resistance in Sobibor
    38 The Underground in Sobibor
    39 The Plan for Uprising in Sobibor
    40 October 14, 1943: The Uprising in Sobibor
    41 Pursuit and Escape from Sobibor
    42 Survival amoung the Local Population
    43 Reports about the Death Camps in Polish Wartime Publications
    44 An Evaluation of the Uprisings and Their Results
    45 Operation Erntefest
    46 The Liquidation of the Camps and the Termination of Operation Reinhard
    Epilogue
    APPENDIX A The Deportation of the Jews from the General Government, Bialystok General District, and Ostland
    APPENDIX B The Fate of the Perpetrators of Operation Reinhard
    Bibliographic Key to the Notes
    Notes
    Index