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Edelheit, Abraham J.
History of the Holocaust : a handbook and dictionary / Abraham J.
Edelheit and Hershel Edelheit.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-8133-1411-9 ISBN 0-8133-2240-5 (pbk.)
1. Holocaust, Jewish
(19391945). 2. Holocaust, Jewish (19391945)DictionariesPolyglot. 3. Dictionaries, Polyglot.
I. Edelheit, Hershel. II. Title.
D804.3.E33 1994
940.5318dc20
93-47316
CIP
ISBN 13: 978-0-8133-2240-7 (pbk)
Dedicated to David and Phyllis Edelheit with loveTables
3.1: German Election Results, 1930-1932, by Number of Seats
8.1: Jewish Immigration to Palestine and the United States, 1933-1939
A.1: Chronology of Anti-Jewish Aktionen
A.2: Legal Jewish Immigration to Palestine, 1933-1945
A.3: Aliya Bet Ships
A.4: Aliya Bet: Statistical Summary
D.1: Jewish DPs in the U.S. Zone in Germany, 1945
D.2: Jewish DPs in 1946
E.1: European Jewish Population, 1933-1948
E.2: Number of Destroyed Jewish Communities
F.1: Fremdarbeiter in the Grossreich
G.1: Generalgouvernement Districts and Jewish Populations
G.2: Major East European Ghettos
H.1: Numbers of Recognized Righteous
K.1: National Socialist Camp Categories
K.2: The Inner Structure of a KL
K.3: KL Kommandos
K.4: Independent Camps
K.5: Total Number of Nazi and Axis Camps
K.6: Number of Victims of the Major VL/KL
L.1: Notable Blood Libels
L.2: Liberation of the Concentration Camps
M.1: Nazi Medical Experiments in Concentration Camps
N.1: Chronology of Criminal Acts
P.1: The Paratroopers and Their Missions
P.2: Major Twentieth-Century Pogroms
P.3: Major Types of POW Camps
P.4: Stalags Holding Polish Jewish POWs
R.1: NSDAP Reichstag Representation, 1924-1932
R.2: Jewish Partisan Units
R.3: Major Concentration Camp Uprisings
R.4: Major Ghetto Uprisings
R.5: General Partisan Units
R.6: Escape Attempts from Nazi Concentration Camps
S.1: The Waffen-SS Divisions
S.2: SS Ranks and Equivalents
T.1: Major Death Marches
W.1: Jews to Be Liquidated as per the Wannsee Protocol
W.2: Jews in the Allied Armies
Z.1: The Persecution of the Gypsies
Graphs
6.1 Structure of the Warsaw Ghetto Underground
A.1 Percentage of Antisemitic Organizations in the United States, by Region
D.1 Flow Chart of Denazification
D.2 DPs in the U.S. Zone in Germany in 1945, by Nationality
G.1 Jewish Population of the Generalgouvernement, by District
K.1 Number of Inmates in Major KLs, 1939 and 1942
Maps
Europe After World War I
The Warsaw Ghetto
The Lodz Ghetto
The Vilna Ghetto
The Location of Jewish Maquis in Southern France
The Generalgouvernement
The Concentration Camp System
Illustrations
East European scholar on the eve of World War II
Scenes of Jewish life in a small shtetl in Poland on the eve of World War II
Public burning of un-German books in the Opernplatz, Berlin, on the night of May 10,1933
"And you still buy German products?" Anti-Z/a'avara poster from the Yishuv
Kristallnacht: Burning of the Rostock Synagogue
Response of the Palestine Post to Kristallnacht
Homeless child sleeping on a street in the Warsaw ghetto
Dr. Emmanuel Ringelblum's invitation to a charity tea party in the Warsaw ghetto
Janusz Korczak with a group of children from the Warsaw ghetto orphanage, 1940
Theatrical performance in the Warsaw ghetto, 1941
Babi Yar: Soldier masking the truth by distributing rations to Jews about to be killed
Labor detail
Toward the crematorium
Forcing the crowd into boxcars
Deportation from the Krakow ghetto
Deportation of Jews from the Krakow area
Provincial Dutch Jews forced to move to the Jewish quarter in Amsterdam
Page from Dr. Emmanuel Ringelblum's Warsaw ghetto diary
Forged Aryan identity papers and a ration booklet
Unit of Jewish partisans from the "Grynspan Group" operating in the Parczew Forest
From the Stroop Report
Ruins of the Warsaw ghetto after the uprising
One of the Nazis' "red posters" attacking the French resistance as "Jewish"
Protective pass issued by the Swedish legation in Budapest
Two antisemitic propaganda tools of the 1930s
"Keep Palestine's doors open": A poster of the Keren Kayemmet le-Israel
The St. Louis in Havana harbor
Facsimile front page of the Jewish rescue proposal for the Bermuda Conference
Survivor explaining the crematoria at Buchenwald to an American soldier
Generals Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley view the corpses of Nazi victims at Ohrdurf
Dachau: U.S. troops patrolling the newly liberated camp's perimeter
"Dead SS bastards from the concentration camp Dachau"
Two scenes from an anti-British protest by Holocaust survivors in Milan, Italy, 1946
Members of the staff of the World Jewish Congress
One of the milk cans used to hide the Oneg Shabbat archive
Jews in a provincial town near Krakow about to be loaded on a death train
SS oversee the loading of Jews onto a train headed for a death camp
Correspondence of a prospective oleh, May 15, 1934
Bond issued to a Labor Schedule immigrant
Call for a hunger strike by the organization of ma'apilim in the Yishuv
Jewish National Fund label depicting the blockade runner She'ar Yashuv
Aufruf: Announcement of the chief of the Warsaw Jdischer Ordnungsdienst
Poster advocating an anti-Nazi boycott in the Yishuv
Selecting books to be burned
