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Subject(s)

• Nazi concentration camps—Europe—Encyclopedias [Browse]
• Jewish ghettos—Europe, Eastern—Encyclopedias [Browse]
• World War, 1939-1945—Concentration camps—Europe—Encyclopedias [Browse]
• World War, 1939-1945—Jews—Europe—Encyclopedias [Browse]

Editor

• Megargee, Geoffrey P., 1959- [Browse]

Related name

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Encyclopedias [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• encyclopedias [Browse]

Summary note

Created by the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the monumental 7-volume encyclopaedia that the present work inaugurates will make available - in one place for the first time - detailed information about the universe of camps, sub-camps, and ghettos established and operated by the Nazis - altogether some 20,000 sites, from Norway to North Africa and from France to Russia. This volume covers three groups of camps: the early camps established in the first year of Hitler's rule, the major concentration camps with their constellations of sub-camps that operated under the control of the SS-Business Administration Main Office, and youth camps. Overview essays precede entries on individual camps and sub-camps. Each entry provides basic information about the purpose of the site; the prisoners, guards, working and living conditions; and key events in its history. Material drawn from personal testimonies helps convey the character of each site, while source citations for each entry provide a path to additional information.

Notes

General editor: Geoffrey P. Megargee.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Awards

Association of Jewish Libraries Judaica Reference Award, 2010.

Contents

• v. 1, pt. A. The early National Socialist concentration camps. Introduction to the early camps
• Camps and subcamp under the SS-inspectorate of concentration camps/business administration main office. The genesis and structure of the National Socialist concentration camps ; Arbeitsdorf main camp ; Auschwitz I main camp ; Auschwitz II-Birkenau main camp ; Auschwitz III-Monowitz main camp (aka Buna) ; Auschwitz subcamp system ; Bergen-Belsen main camp ; Buchenwald main camp ; Buchenwald subcamp system ; Dachau main camp ; Dachau subcamp system ; Flossenbürg main camp ; Flossenbürg subcamp system ; Gross-Rosen main camp ; Gross-Rosen subcamp system ; Herzogenbusch main camp (aka Vught) ; Hinzert main camp ; Kauen main camp (aka Kaunas, Kovno, Kowno, also Slobadka)
• v. 1, pt. B. Krakau-Plaszow main camp ; Lublin main camp (aka Majdanek) ; Mauthausen main camp ; Mauthausen subcamp system ; Mittelbau main camp (aka Dora) ; Mittelbau subcamp system ; Natzweiler-Struthof main camp (aka Natzweiler, Struthof) ; Natzweiler subcamp system ; Gruppe "Wüste" complex ; Neuengamme main camp ; Neuengamme subcamp system ; Ravensbrück main camp ; Ravensbrück subcamp system ; Riga-Kaiserwald main camp (aka Mez̆aparks) ; Sachsenhausen main camp ; Sachsenhausen subcamp system ; SS-Baubrigaden and SS-Eisenbahnbaubrigaden ; Stutthof main camp ; Stutthof subcamp system ; Vaivara main camp ; Warschau main camp ; Wewelsburg main camp (aka Niederhagen)
• Youth camps. Introduction to youth camps.
• v. 2, pt. A. Incorporated eastern territories. Zichenau region (Regierungsbezirk Zichenau) ; Warthegau region (Reichsgau Wartheland) ; Eastern Upper Silesia region (Ost-Oberschlesien)
• Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (Protekrorat Böhmen und Mahren)
• General Government (Generalgouvernement). Radom region (Distrikt Radom) ; Warsaw region (Distrikt Warschau) ; Kraków region (Distrikt Krakau); Lublin region (Distrikt Lublin); Eastern Galicia region (Distrikt Galizien)
• Białystok region (Distrikt Bialystok)
• v. 2, pt. B. Reich Commissariat Ostland (Reichskommissariat Ostland) ; Estonia and Latvia regions (Generalkommissariat Estland und Generalkommissariat Lettland) ; Lithuania region (Generalkommissariat Litauen) ; Weissruthenien region (Generalkommissariat Weissruthenien)
• Reich Commissariat Ukraine (Reichskommissariat Ukraine). Volhynia and Podolia region (Generalkommissariat Wolhynien und Podolien) ; Zhytomyr region (Generalkommissariat Shitomir) ; Kiev region (Generalkommissariat Kiew) ; Nikolaev and Dnepropetrovsk regions (Generalkommissariate Nikolajew und Dnjepropetrowsk)
• Regions of the USSR under German military occupation. Eastern Belorussia region ; Eastern Ukraine and Crimea region ; Occupied Russian Territory
• German-occupied Greece.
• v. 3. Camps and Ghettos under European Regimes Aligned with Nazi Germany ; Croatia pp. 45-78
• Finland pp. 79-88
• France/Vichy pp. 89-239
• Vichy Africa pp. 240-300
• Hungary pp. 301-388
• Italy pp. 389-478
• Italian-Occupied Albania pp. 479-501
• Italian-Occupied East Africa (Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia) pp. 502-504
• Italian-Occupied Greece pp. 505-526
• Italian-Occupied North Africa pp. 527-530
• Italian-Occupied Southeast France pp. 531-539
• Italian-Occupied Yugoslavia pp. 540-558
• Norway pp. 559-568
• Romania pp. 569-830
• Serbia pp. 831-840
• Slovakia pp. 841-892
• Tunisia (French and Italian Camps) pp. 893-902
• List of Abbreviations pp. 903-926
• Table of Approximate Rank Equivalents pp. 927-930
• List of Contributors pp. 931-934
• About the Editor pp. 935-936
• Names Index pp. 937-952
• Places Index pp. 953-976
• Organizations and Enterprises Index pp. 977-990
• v. 4. Camps and other detention facilities under the German armed forces. Wehrmacht prisoner of war camps
• Frontstalags
• Prisoner of war special camps
• Camps and other facilities for civilians
• Tunisia Wehrmacht camps
• Wehrmacht disciplinary facilities
• Names index
• Places index
• Organizations and enterprises index.

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Other title(s)

Encyclopedia of camps and ghettos, 1933-1945

ISBN

• 9780253060891
• 9780253353283 (v. 1 set : cloth : alk. paper)
• 0253353289 (v. 1 set : cloth : alk. paper)
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• 9780253354297 (v. 1, pt. B : alk. paper)
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• 9780253355997 (v. 2 set : cloth : alk. paper)
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• 0253060893 (v. 4)

LCCN

2008037382

OCLC

244567181

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