The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, Volume II

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This volume offers a comprehensive account of how the Nazis conducted theHolocaust throughout the scattered towns and villages of Poland and the SovietUnion. It covers more than 1, 150 sites, including both open and closed ghettos.Regional essays outline the patterns of ghettoization in 19 German administrativeregions. Each entry discusses key events in the history of the ghetto, living andworking conditions, activities of the Jewish Councils, Jewish responses topersecution, demographic changes, and details of the ghetto's liquidation. Personaltestimonies help convey the character of each ghetto, while source citations providea guide to additional information. Documentation of hundreds of smaller sites --previously unknown or overlooked in the historiography of the Holocaust -- make thisan indispensable reference work on the destroyed Jewish communities of EasternEurope.