The Operation Reinhard Death Camps, Revised and Expanded Edition: Belzec, Sobibor, TreblinkaUnder 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. |
Contents
Organization and Manpower | |
Construction and Establishing the Method of Annihilation | |
five Construction of Sobibor | |
six Construction of Treblinka | |
eight Expulsion from the Ghettos | |
twentyseven The Prisoners and the Deportees | |
twentyeight Faith and Religion | |
thirty Social Life | |
thirtyone The Cognizance and Reaction of the Victims in Occupied Poland | |
thirtythree Escapes from the Camps | |
thirtyfour The Underground in Treblinka | |
thirtyfive The Plan for the Uprising in Treblinka | |
thirtyseven Pursuit and Escape from Treblinka | |
nine The Trains of Death | |
May to July 1942 | |
thirteen Reorganization in Treblinka | |
fifteen Jewish Working Prisoners | |
sixteen Women Prisoners | |
eighteen The Annihilation of the Jews in the General Government | |
twenty Transports from Other European Countries | |
twentyone The Extermination of Gypsies | |
twentythree Himmlers Visit to Sobibor and Treblinka | |
twentyfive Portraits of the Perpetrators | |
twentysix The Prisoners Daily Life | |
thirtynine The Underground in Sobibor | |
forty The Plan for the Uprising in Sobibor | |
fortytwo Pursuit and Escape from Sobibor | |
fortyfour Operation Reinhard and Reports about the Death Camps in Polish Wartime | |
fortyfive An Evaluation of the Uprisings and Their Results | |
fortyseven The Liquidation of the Camps and the Termination of Operation Reinhard | |
Epilogue | |
Appendix B The Fate of the Perpetrators of Operation Reinhard | |