A History in Words and Pictures.
During the Second World War, six million Jews - as well as other targeted groups such as Gypsies, Poles, the handicapped, and homosexuals - were systematically murdered by Adolf Hitler's Nazis and their collaborators. The incomprehensible number - six million - becomes all the more horrifying when it is broken down into the many individual atrocities, which occurred almost daily from 1941 to 1945.
This chronicle, written and fact-checked by top scholars, recounts the long, complex, anguishing story of the Holocaust. The mission of the publisher has been to report the facts, clearly and free of bias or agenda. Inside are over 2,000 arresting images, many in colour, drawn from archives and private collections located around the globe. More than 30 full-colour maps show ghettos, concentration and extermination camps, deportations, Jewish populations, and relevant military operations.
An 80,000-word, 3,000-item timeline pinpoints the specific deportations, atrocities, and important developments in the "Final Solution", with entries of Holocaust-related events during the war years running virtually day-by-day. Pre-Holocaust events (1,000 BC through 1932 AD) are covered in a fact-filled, generously illustrated prologue. The book's epilogue discusses Holocaust-related events dating from 1947 through 1999.
Special attention is given to Holocaust-related topics that are generally not well-known to the popular audience - readers will gain insights into Jewish resistance; women and the Holocaust; the fates of Gypsies, political dissidents, homosexuals, Freemasons, Jehovah's Witnesses, and others; the facts about American and other Allied responses to the Holocaust; the Holocaust and the Catholic Church; and other fascinating facts.
The book gives the reader a detailed overview of the Holocaust story, focusing on key issues, events, and personalities. The richly illustrated, chronicle-style format brings the subject alive, and gives it great immediacy. 'The Holocaust Chronicle' is an eyewitness museum and is a not-for-profit book.
