Biographical Statement(s):

(tentative only - subject to change)

Yitzhak Arad, Chairman of Yad Vashem, Holocaust Remembrance Authority, is a lecturer in Jewish History at the University of Tel Aviv and author of Ghetto in Flames: Story of the Vilna Ghetto.

PART ONE THE EXTERMINATION MACHINE

1. The Final Solution: From Shooting to Gas

2. Operation Reinhard: Organization and Manpower

3. Belzec: Construction and Experiments

4. Construction of Sobibor

5. Construction of Treblinka

6. Preparing for the Deportations

7. Expulsion from the Ghettos

8. The Trains of Death

9. Belzec: March 17 to June, 1942

10. Sobibor: May to July, 1942

11. Treblinka: July 23 to August 28, 1942

12. Reorganization in Treblinka

13. The Mission of Gerstein and Pfannenstiel

14. Jewish Working Prisoners

15. Women Prisoners

16. Improved Extermination Techniques and Installations

17. The Annihilation of the Jews in the General Government

18. Deportations from Bialystok General District and Ostland

19. Transports from Other European Countries

20. The Extermination of Gypsies

21. The Economic Plunder

22. Himmler's Visit to SObibor and Treblinka

23. The Erasure of the Crimes

PART TWO LIFE IN THE SHADOW OF DEATH

24 Portraits of the Perpetrators

25 The Prisoners' of Daily Life

26 The Prisoners and the Deportees

27 Faith and Religion

28 Diseases, Epidemics, and Suicide

29 Social Life

PART THREE ESCAPE AND RESISTANCE

30 The Cognizance and Reaction of the Victims in Occupied Poland

31 Escapes from the Trains and Spontaneous Acts of Resistance

32 Escapes from the Camps

33 The Underground in Teblinka

34 The Plan for the Uprising in Treblinka

35 August 2, 1943: The Uprising in Treblinka

36 Pursuit and Escape from Treblinka

37 Ideas and Organization for Resistance in Sobibor

38 The Underground in Sobibor

39 The Plan for Uprising in Sobibor

40 October 14, 1943: The Uprising in Sobibor

41 Pursuit and Escape from Sobibor

42 Survival amoung the Local Population

43 Reports about the Death Camps in Polish Wartime Publications

44 An Evaluation of the Uprisings and Their Results

45 Operation Erntefest

46 The Liquidation of the Camps and the Termination of Operation Reinhard

Epilogue

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 Reinhard

Bibliographic Key to the Notes

Notes

Index