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The Operation Reinhard death camps, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Yitzhak Arad

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The Operation Reinhard death camps

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Yitzhak Arad

Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka

"Under the code name Operation Reinhard, more than one and a half million Jews were murdered between 1942 and 1943 in the concentration camps of Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka, located in Nazi-occupied Poland. Unlike more well-known camps, which were used both for slave labor and extermination, these camps existed purely to murder Jews. Few victims survived to tell their stories, and the camps were largely forgotten after they were dismantled in 1943. The Operation Reinhard Death Camps bears eloquent witness to this horrific tragedy. This newly revised and expanded edition includes new material on the history of the Jews under German occupation in Poland; the execution and timing of Operation Reinhard; information about the ghettos in Lublin, Warsaw, Krakow, Radom, and Galicia; and updated numbers of the victims who were murdered during deportations. In addition to documenting the horror of the camps, Yitzhak Arad recounts the stories of those courageous enough to struggle against the Nazis and their "final solution." Arad's work retrieves the experiences of Operation Reinhard's victims and survivors from obscurity and exposes a terrible chapter in humanity's history"--, Provided by publisher

The Jews of the general government, September 1939 -- June 1941 : deportations and ghettoization -- The road to Operation Reinhard -- Operation Reinhard : organization and manpower -- Belzec : construction and establishing the method of annihilation -- Construction of Sobibor -- Construction of Treblinka -- Preparing for the deportations -- Expulsion from the ghettos -- The trains of death -- Belzec : March 17 to June 1942 -- Sobibor : May to July 1942 -- Treblinka : July 23 to August 28, 1942 -- Reorganization in Treblinka -- The mission of Gerstein and Pfannenstiel -- Jewish working prisoners -- Women prisoners -- Improving extermination techniques and installations -- The annihilation of the Jews in the general government -- Deportations from Bialystok general district (Bezirk Bialystok) and Reichskommissariat Ostland -- Transports from other European countries -- The extermination of Gypsies -- The economic plunder -- Himmler's visit to Sobibor and Treblinka -- The erasure of the crimes -- Portraits of the perpetrators -- The prisoners' daily life -- The prisoners and the deportees -- Faith and religion -- Diseases, epidemics, and suicide -- Social life -- The cognizance and reaction of the victims in occupied Poland -- Escapes from the trains and spontaneous acts of resistance -- Escapes from the camps -- The underground in Treblinka -- The plan for the uprising in Treblinka -- August 2, 1943 : the uprising in Treblinka -- Pursuit and escape from Treblinka -- Ideas and organization for resistance in Sobibor -- The underground in Sobibor -- The plan for the uprising in Sobibor -- October 14, 1943 : the uprising in Sobibor -- Pursuit and escape from Sobibor -- Survival among the local population -- Operation Reinhard and reports about the death camps in Polish wartime publications -- An evaluation of the uprisings and their results -- Operation Erntefest ("Harvest Festival") -- The liquidation of the camps and the termination of Operation Reinhard -- Assessing the number of victims of Operation Reinhard