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, & the text & photographs that accompany them, powerfully depict the fate of the Jews between 1933 & 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 & 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 & deportations, the ghettos, & the establishment of the concentration camps & death camps throughout German-dominated Europe the spread of Nazi rule
- the fate of the Jews throughout Europe including Germany, Austria, Pol&, Greece, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Russia, Denmark, Norway, France, Holl&, Belgium, Italy, & the Baltic States Jewish revolts & 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 & the liberation of the camps, the survivors, & the final death toll. This revised edition
Includes:: a new section which gives an insight into the layout & organization of some of the most significant places of the Holocaust, including Auschwitz, Treblinka & the Warsaw ghetto, maps that will be especially useful to those visiting the sites.