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Title:
The Holocaust / Jeff Hay, book editor ; Frank Chalk, consulting editor.
Author:
Hay, Jeff, editor of compilation.
Publication Information:
Farmington Hills, Mich. : Greenhaven Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, [2014]
Call Number:
D804.3 .H625 2014
Abstract:
Examines the origins of the Holocaust, the means by which Nazi Germany carried it out, and some of the debates it has inspired.
ISBN:
9780737768978
Series:
Genocide & persecution

Genocide and persecution.
Physical Description:
190 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Overview of the Holocaust / 1938 pogrom against German Jews was an important step toward the Holocaust / Holocaust began with mass shootings on the eastern front / German officials discuss the "final solution to the Jewish question" / Holocaust just got more shocking / Modern students visit one of the death camps of the Holocaust / Special efforts have been made in both Israel and the United States to keep the memory of the Holocaust alive / Adolf Hitler always planned to rid Europe of Jews / Holocaust began because of circumstances rather than a longstanding plan / Only the pressures of war turned ordinary Germans into killers / It is important to keep alive the memory of the Holocaust in the face of challenges / Holocaust deniers often try to appear respectable / Holocaust denier loses in court / Survivor recounts his capture and his journey to the Auschwitz extermination camp / Watching the departure of ghetto children to one of Nazi Germany's death camps / Horrors of the Holocaust included medical experiments on young prisoners / Surviving the Warsaw ghetto, Auschwitz, and the death marches / American Jewish woman, originally from Hungary, recalls her experiences / Soldier remembers the liberation of one of Hitler's camps
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