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 Machine

1. The Jews of the General Government, September 1939-June 1941: Deportations and Ghettoization

2. The Road to Operation Reinhard

3. Operation Reinhard: Organization and Manpower

4. Belzec: Construction and Establishing the Method of Annihilation

5. Construction of Sobibor

6. Construction of Treblinka

7. Preparing for the Deportations

8. Expulsion from the Ghettos

9. The Trains of Death

10. Belzec: March 17 to June, 1942

11. Sobibor: May to July, 1942

12. Treblinka: July 23 to August 28, 1942

13. Reorganization in Treblinka

14. The Mission of Gerstein and Pfannenstiel

15. Jewish Working Prisoners

16. Women Prisoners

17. Improving Extermination Techniques and Installations

18. The Annihilation of the Jews in the General Government

19. Deportations from Bialystok General District (Bezirk Bialystok) and Reichskommissariat Ostland

20. Transports from Other European Countries

21. The Extermination of Gypsies

22. The Economic Plunder

23. Himmler's Visit to Sobibor and Treblinka

24. The Erasure of the Crimes

Part Two: Life in the Shadow of Death

25. Portraits of the Perpetrators

26. The Prisoners' Daily Life

27. The Prisoners and the Deportees

28. Faith and Religion

29. Diseases, Epidemics, and Suicide

30. Social Life

Part Three: Escape and Resistance

31. The Cognizance and Reaction of the Victims in Occupied Poland

32. Escapes from the Trains and Spontaneous Acts of Resistance

33. Escapes from the Camps

34. The Underground in Treblinka

35. The Plan for the Uprising in Treblinka

36. August 2, 1943: The Uprising in Treblinka

37. Pursuit and Escape from Treblinka

38. Ideas and Organization for Resistance in Sobibor

39. The Underground in Sobibor

40. The Plan for the Uprising in Sobibor

41. October 14, 1943: The Uprising in Sobibor

42. Pursuit and Escape from Sobibor

43. Survival among the Local Population

44. Operation Reinhard and Reports about the Death Camps in Polish Wartime Publications

45. An Evaluation of the Uprisings and Their Results

Part Four: The Final Stage of Operation Reinhard

46. Operation Erntefest

47. The Liquidation of the Camps and the Termination of Operation Reinhard

48. Assessing the Number of Victims 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

Bibliography

Index