Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps - Hardcover

Arad, Yitzhak

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0253342937 ISBN 13: 9780253342935

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 1987

Synopsis

Between the years 1942 and 1943, under the code name Operation Reinhard, more than one-and-a-half million Jews were gassed in the concentration camps of Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka, located in Nazi-occupied Poland. Fewer than 200 Jews survived the operation. Using sources previously overlooked, such as German and Polish official records and testimonies from Nazi war crimes trials, Yitzhak Arad records the complete history of the death camps from their construction in 1941 to their destruction in 1943. He tells the tale of the death camps' inmates -- though many lived only a few hours after their arrival -- the underground organizations, the revolts and escapes, and the details concerning the day-to-day survival of those spared instant death in the gas chambers. Arad's work retrieves the experience of Operation Reinhard's victims and survivors from obscurity and bears eloquent witness to their tragedy.

About this title

Book Description:

A Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 1987

About the Author:

Yitzhak Arad, Chairman of Yad Vashem, Holocaust Remembrance Authority, is a lecturer in Jewish History at the University of Tel Aviv and author of Ghetto in Flames: Story of the Vilna Ghetto.

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0253342937
• ISBN 13: 9780253342935
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 448