This
concise, easy-to-use resource on the Holocaust is rich in factual and
statistical information, and provides a comprehensive compilation of the
people and terms that are essential for an understanding of the
Holocaust. In 2,000 entries, it profiles major personalities, covers
concentration and death camps, cities and countries, and significant
events. Also included are important terms translated from German,
French, Polish, Yiddish, and twelve other languages. Biographical
entries give a brief history, the person's significance, and their
historical context. Geographical entries pinpoint exact locations using
other cities or countries as landmarks, and give the number of Jewish
inhabitants before Nazi occupation, and the percentage of Jews killed.
Historical background is provided for such events as Kristallnacht and
the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and entries on concentration and death camps
give details on the nationalities interned, the camp's specific
location, and its history. This reference is impressive in its scope and
includes major perpetrators, bystanders, collaborators, victims,
rescuers such as Righteous Gentiles, Jewish ghetto fighters, and
partisans. It also explores the role of women and the complicity of
physicians and industrialists during the Holocaust more fully than any
other reference. This dictionary provides the information needed by
students whose understanding of the Holocaust is limited by the absence
of a single accessible research text.