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Seventy years after the outbreak of World War II, most of the European ghettos have still not been systematically researched. This pioneering two-volume encyclopaedia gathers data from historical studies, testimonies, and documents dealing with more than 1,100 ghettos throughout Eastern Europe. This encyclopaedia offers detailed entries on the various ghettos into which the Jews of Eastern Europe were confined during the Holocaust. Entries on each ghetto are written by scholars and specialists on their topic and include location, wartime name, and geographical coordinates, and, for the larger ghettos, information on life before World War II and during the Soviet occupation era, German (Nazi) occupation, ghetto setup, institutional life and leadership, terror and killing operations, underground resistance, and the number of survivors at liberation. They also describe the differences between each ghetto and examine the difficulties of daily life in the ghetto, coping strategies, and different forms of resistance. The first reference book of its kind, The Yad Vashem Encyclopedia of the Ghettos during the Holocaust is a valuable resource for diverse disciplines and is supplemented by a special DVD of wartime footage of ghettos filmed in real time during the Holocaust.

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In spite of more than six decades of extensive Holocaust research, scholars and laymen have not hitherto grasped the full extent and nature of the ghettos phenomenon of the Nazi era. This encyclopedia, which presents the full array of ghettos in a variety of countries under the yoke of Nazi Germany and its allies, urges the rethinking of common wisdom on both the ghettos as such and on anti-semitic policies during the Holocaust in general. Dan Michman, Chief Historian, Yad Vashem, and Chair, The Arnold and Leona Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research, Bar-Ilan University

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