The Holocaust : a history of the Jews of Europe during the Second World War

Gilbert, Martin 1936-2015 (Author).

Summary: Sets the scene with a brief history of anti-Semitism prior to Hitler, and documents the horrors of the Holocaust from 1933 onward, in an incisive, interpretive account of the genocide of World War II.

Record details

ISBN: 0805003487
ISBN: 9780805003482
Physical Description: print
959 pages, [20] pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Edition: 1st Owl Book ed.
Publisher: New York : H. Holt, 1987, ©1985.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 831-896) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

First steps to iniquity -- 1933: the shadow of the swastika -- Towards disinheritance -- After the nuremberg laws -- "Hunted like rats" -- 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!' -- Crime without a name -- Write and record -- Final solution -- Eye-witness to mass murder -- 20 January 1942: the Wannsee conference -- Journey into the unknown -- Another journey into the unknow -- If they have enough time, we are lost -- Avenge our tormented people -- From Warsaw to Treblinka: these disatrous and horrible days -- 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 -- Crashing fires of hell -- To perish, but with honour -- Page of glory never to be written -- Do not think our spirit is broken -- One should like so much to live a little bit longer -- 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 -- Death marches -- Tainted luck of survival.