The Holocaust A History of the Jews of Europe

Deftly weaving together historical research and survivors' testimonies, The Holcaust is Gilbert's acclaimed and definitive history of the European Jews, fom Hitler's rise to power to Germany's surrender to the liberation of the prisoners of the concentration camps.

One of Britain's most distinguished historians, Martin Gilbert was knighted in 1995. A fellow of Merton College, Oxford, he is also the official biographer of Winston Churchill. Among his books are The Holocaust, The Second World War, Churchill: A Life, Auschwitz and the Allies, The First World War, and Never Again.

Acknowledgements

13

(4)

Preface

17

(2)

First steps to iniquity

19

(13)

1933: the shadow of the swastika

32

(10)

Towards disinheritance

42

(8)

After the Nuremberg Laws

50

(7)

`Hunted like rats'

57

(9)

`The seeds of a terrible vengeance'

66

(18)

September 1939: the trapping of Polish Jewry

84

(15)

`Blood of innocents'

99

(10)

1940: `a wave of evil'

109

(10)

War in the West: terror in the East

119

(18)

January--June 1941: the spreading net

137

(17)

`It cannot happen!'

154

(26)

`A crime without a name'

180

(33)

`Write and record!'

213

(28)

The `final solution'

241

(11)

Eye-witness to mass murder

252

(28)

20 January 1942: the Wannsee Conference

280

(14)

`Journey into the unknown'

294

(35)

`Another journey into the unknown'

329

(23)

`If they have enough time, we are lost'

352

(21)

`Avenge our tormented people'

373

(14)

From Warsaw to Treblinka: `these disastrous and horrible days'

387

(15)

Autumn 1942: `at a faster pace'

402

(17)

`The most horrible of all horrors'

419

(47)

September--November 1942: the spread of resistance

466

(28)

`To save at least someone'

494

(32)

`Help me get more trains'

526

(31)

Warsaw, April 1943: hopeless days of revolt

557

(11)

`The crashing fires of hell'

568

(24)

`To perish, but with honour'

592

(19)

`A page of glory...never to be written'

611

(16)

`Do not think our spirit is broken'

627

(21)

`One should like so much to live a little bit longer'

648

(14)

From the occupation of Hungary to the Normandy landings

662

(23)

`May one cry now?'

685

(21)

July--September 1944: the last deportations

706

(25)

September 1944: the Days of Awe

731

(12)

Revolt at Birkenau

743

(8)

Protectors and persecutors

751

(16)

The death marches

767

(17)

The `tainted luck' of survival

784

(47)

Epilogue: `I will tell the world'

811

(20)

Notes and sources

831

(66)

Index

897

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