Product Description: The Holocaust in the Soviet Union is the most complete account to date of the Soviet Jews during the World War II and the Holocaust (1941 45). Reports, records, documents, and research previously unavailable in English enable Yitzhak Arad to trace the Holocaust in the German-occupied territories of the Soviet Union through three separate periods in which German political and military goals in the occupied territories dictated the treatment of the Jews...read more

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These 213 documents on the theory, planning, and execution of, and reaction and resistance to, the Nazi plan to exterminate European Jews date from the 1920s through the closing days of World War II and focus on the experience of eastern Europe. The crystallization of the principles of Nazi anti-Semitism, the policies of the Third Reich toward the Jews, the period of segregation and enclosed ghettos, and the stages through which the ‘final solution’ were implemented are some of the topics covered. Other documents shed light on Jewish public activities and the organization of the Underground and Jewish self-defense. Many of the documents of Jewish origin were not published previously. This comprehensive collection is essential for understanding the history of the Holocaust.

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

Photographs document the Holocaust, including the rise of Nazism, persecution of Jews in Germany, mass murders at the death camps, and Jewish armed resistance

Product Description: 378pp - Index

Describes the struggles of the Jewish population of Vilna to survive and resist their persecution by the Nazis during World War II

Describes the struggles of the Jewish population of Vilna to survive and resist their persecution by the Nazis during World War II