This book outlines the program code named Operation Reinhard, which included the operation of 3 concentration camps in Nazi Poland: Belzec, Sobibor, and Trebinka. The author also tells tales of the inmates, chronicling underground organizations, revolts and escapes, and a myriad of details concerning the day-to-day survival of those spared instant death in the gas chambers. [From publisher's description]

Traces the sobering history of World War II's largest female concentration camp, revealing the torturous experiences and deaths of thousands of women prisoners of more than twenty nationalities.

Journal written in Auschwitz by a Holocaust survivor in the weeks following the camp's liberation by the Red Army. "In 1943, amidst the start of German occupation, Eddy de Wind worked as a doctor at Westerbork, a Dutch transit camp. His mother had been taken to this camp by Nazis but Eddy was assured by the Jewish Council she would be freed in exchange for his labor. He later found out she'd already been transferred to Auschwitz. While at Westerbork,...

"Wachsmann offers an ... integrated account of the Nazi concentration camps from their inception in 1933 through their demise, seventy years ago, in the spring of 1945. The Third Reich has been studied in more depth than virtually any other period in history, and yet until now there has been no history of the camp system that tells the full story of its broad development and the everyday experiences of its inhabitants, both perpetrators and victims,...