“The ofcial offenses—and there were so many—the repeated threats, the decrees preced
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ing the ghettos, the “Aktions,” the camps of slow or immediate death—and there wassuch a variety of them, large and small, known and lesser known: this is a new universethat the Enemy built with its only goal: to wipe out from history even the memory of itsvictims.“Therefore, reader, study this Encyclopedia which you hold in your hands: say to your
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self that its message comes from afar but, for the sake of humanity, appeals to the future.”—From the Foreword by
Elie Wiesel
The development of this encyclopedia was made possible by the generous support of theHelen Bader Foundation, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, Inc.,and the William Zell Family Foundation.
May 20091796 pp., 192 b&w photos, 23 mapsRights: WorldwideUSHO1C cloth 978-0-253-35328-3 $295.001.800.842.6796 • iupress.indiana.edu
Published in association with the
 
The Ute Sttes Hust Memr Museum
EncyclopEdia of caMpS and GHETToS,1933–1945
Gere p. Megrgee, Etrfrewr b Ee Wese
This monumental 7-volumeencyclopedia, the result of years ofwork by the Center for AdvancedHolocaust Studies at the United StatesHolocaust Memorial Museum, willdescribe the universe of camps andghettos—some 20,000 in all—thatthe Nazis and their allies operated,from Norway to North Africa andfrom France to Russia. For the rsttime, a single reference work willprovide detailed information on eachindividual site.This rst volume covers threegroups of camps: the early campsthat the Nazis established in therst year of Hitler’s rule, the majorSS concentration camps with theirconstellations of subcamps, and thespecial camps for Polish and Germanchildren and adolescents. Overviewessays provide context for each category,while each camp entry provides basicinformation about the site’s purpose;the prisoners, guards, working andliving conditions; and key events in thecamp’s history. Material from personaltestimonies helps convey the character ofthe site, while source citations provide apath to additional information.
Geoffrey P. Megargee
is an appliedresearch scholar at the Center forAdvanced Holocaust Studies, UnitedStates Holocaust Memorial Museum. Heis author of
War of Annihilation: Combatand Genocide on the Eastern Front, 1941
and
Inside Hitler’s High Command.
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