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Articles identify and describe individuals and events connected with the persecution of Jews and others across Europe in the 1930s and 1940s
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This four-volume set covers every aspect of the Holocaust including historical background; biographies of Nazi leaders; the fate of Jews by country, ghetto, and camp; the assistance, or lack of it, of countries that were not under German occupation; the bravery of non-Jews who tried to rescue Jews; and the outcome of the war. Entries are in alphabetical order and are cross-referenced. Volume I (7638-4) begins with a glossary and covers Absehr to extermination camps; Volume II (7639-2), family camps to Lvov; Volume III (7640-6), Macedonia to Szenes; and Volume IV (7641-4), Tehran children to Zyklon B. Each volume has a cumulative index, and Volume IV also contains a subject index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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