Operation Reinhard Death Camps, Revised and Expanded Edition

Yitzhak Arad has written many books, including In the Shadow of the Red Banner, Ghetto in Flames: The Struggle and Destruction of the Jews in Vilna in the Holocaust, and Pictorial History of the Holocaust. He served as Director (Chairman of the Directorate) of the International Council of Yad Vashem, Holocaust Remembrance Authority, for 21 years.

• Preface Introduction Part One: The Extermination Machine1. The Jews of the General Government, September 1939–June 1941: Deportations and Ghettoization2. The Road to Operation Reinhard3. Operation Reinhard: Organization and Manpower4. Belzec: Construction and Establishing the Method of Annihilation5. Construction of Sobibor6. Construction of Treblinka7. Preparing for the Deportations8. Expulsion from the Ghettos9. The Trains of Death10. Belzec: March 17 to June, 194211. Sobibor: May to July, 194212. Treblinka: July 23 to August 28, 194213. Reorganization in Treblinka14. The Mission of Gerstein and Pfannenstiel15. Jewish Working Prisoners16. Women Prisoners17. Improving Extermination Techniques and Installations18. The Annihilation of the Jews in the General Government19. Deportations from Bialystok General District (Bezirk Bialystok) and Reichskommissariat Ostland20. Transports from Other European Countries21. The Extermination of Gypsies22. The Economic Plunder23. Himmler's Visit to Sobibor and Treblinka24. The Erasure of the CrimesPart Two: Life in the Shadow of Death25. Portraits of the Perpetrators26. The Prisoners' Daily Life27. The Prisoners and the Deportees28. Faith and Religion29. Diseases, Epidemics, and Suicide30. Social LifePart Three: Escape and Resistance31. The Cognizance and Reaction of the Victims in Occupied Poland32. Escapes from the Trains and Spontaneous Acts of Resistance33. Escapes from the Camps34. The Underground in Treblinka35. The Plan for the Uprising in Treblinka36. August 2, 1943: The Uprising in Treblinka37. Pursuit and Escape from Treblinka38. Ideas and Organization for Resistance in Sobibor39. The Underground in Sobibor40. The Plan for the Uprising in Sobibor41. October 14, 1943: The Uprising in Sobibor42. Pursuit and Escape from Sobibor43. Survival among the Local Population44. Operation Reinhard and Reports about the Death Camps in Polish Wartime Publications45. An Evaluation of the Uprisings and Their ResultsPart Four: The Final Stage of Operation Reinhard46. Operation Erntefest47. The Liquidation of the Camps and the Termination of Operation Reinhard48. Assessing the Number of Victims of Operation ReinhardEpilogue Appendix A. The Deportation of the Jews from the General Government, Bialystok General District, and Ostland Appendix B. The Fate of the Perpetrators of Operation ReinhardBibliography Index

This is the authentic, exhaustive, definitive account of the least known death camps of the Nazi era.- Raul Hilberg, author of The Destruction of the European Jews With meticulous scholarship and precise exposition Tel Aviv historian and Yad Vashem director Arad recounts all facets of Operation Reinhard, the destruction of 1.5 million Jews in occupied Poland from 1941 to 1943. . . . This comprehensive, judicious, and moving history is a remarkable contribution to Holocaust studies and is strongly recommended(Library Journal) Drawing on a wealth of evidence . . . Arad lets the terrible record speak for itself... Mr. Arad reports as a controlled and effective witness for the prosecution . . . Mr. Arad's book, with its abundance of horrifying detail, reminds us of how far we have to go.(New York Times Book Review)