The Holocaust : The Jewish Tragedy

Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0002163055 
ISBN 13
9780002163057 
LCCN
86222700 
OCLC
15223149 
Category
Missionary ( 宣教研究 )  [ Browse Items ]
Publication Year
1986 
Publisher
Pages
959 
Subject
D810 
Abstract
An account of the events of the Holocaust, including many details, based mainly on the testimonies of survivors. Chs. 1-5 (p. 19-67) describe the rise of Nazism and its virulent antisemitic policies up to 1938. Chs. 6-16 (p. 66-279) cover the period from the "Kristallnacht" pogrom to the Wannsee Conference. Chs. 17-41 (p. 280-810) relate the implementation of the destruction of European Jewry. Pp. 829-959 contain a highly detailed listing of notes and sources and the index. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism).

 
Description
Volume 1. First steps to iniquity -- 1933 : the shadow of the swastika -- Towards disinheritance -- After the Nuremberg laws -- "Hunted like rats" -- "The seeds of a terrible vengeance" -- September 1939 : the trapping of Polish Jewry -- "Blood of innocents" -- 1940 : "a wave of evil" -- War in the West : terror in the East -- January-June 1941 : the spreading net -- "It cannot happen!" -- "A crime without a name" -- "Write and record!" -- The "final solution" -- Eye-witness to mass murder -- 20 January 1942 : the Wannsee Conference -- "Journey into the unknown" -- Volume 2. "Another journey into the unknown" -- "If they have enough time, we are lost" -- "Avenge our tormented people" -- From Warsaw to Treblinka : "these disastrous and horrible delays" -- Autumn 1942 : "at a faster pace" -- "The most horrible of all horrors" -- September-November 1942 : the spread of resistance -- "To save at least someone" -- "Help me get more trains" -- Warsaw, April 1943 : hopeless days of revolt -- "The crashing fires of hell" -- "To perish, but with honour" -- "A page of glory ... never to be written" -- "Do not think our spirit is broken" -- "One should like to live a little bit longer" -- Volume 3. From the occupation of Hungary to the Normandy landings -- "May one cry now?" -- July-September 1944 : the last deportations -- September 1944 : the days of awe -- Revolt at Birkenau -- Protectors and persecutors -- The "tainted luck" of survival -- Epilogue: "I will tell the world." 
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