Dictionary of the Holocaust: Biography, Geography, and Terminology

This concise, easy-to-use resource on the Holocaust is rich in factual and statistical information, and provides a comprehensive compilation of the people and terms that are essential for an understanding of the Holocaust. In 2,000 entries, it profiles major personalities, covers concentration and death camps, cities and countries, and significant events. Also included are important terms translated from German, French, Polish, Yiddish, and twelve other languages. Biographical entries give a brief history, the person's significance, and their historical context. Geographical entries pinpoint exact locations using other cities or countries as landmarks, and give the number of Jewish inhabitants before Nazi occupation, and the percentage of Jews killed. Historical background is provided for such events as Kristallnacht and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and entries on concentration and death camps give details on the nationalities interned, the camp's specific location, and its history. This reference is impressive in its scope and includes major perpetrators, bystanders, collaborators, victims, rescuers such as Righteous Gentiles, Jewish ghetto fighters, and partisans. It also explores the role of women and the complicity of physicians and industrialists during the Holocaust more fully than any other reference. This dictionary provides the information needed by students whose understanding of the Holocaust is limited by the absence of a single accessible research text.

Table of Contents:
Foreword by Dr. Henry Huttenbach Introduction Bibliography Index

About the Author :
ERIC JOSEPH EPSTEIN is Visiting Assistant Professor of Humanities at Pennsylvania State University in Harrisburg, where he teaches Holocaust Studies. He also coordinates the taping of Holocaust survivors in central Pennsylvania and has written numerous articles. PHILIP ROSEN is Director of the Holocaust Awareness Museum at Gratz College./e He has taught at both the secondary and college level and has instructed teachers in the areas of the Holocaust and Genocide Studies. He has written many articles on genocide and has interviewed many survivors and liberators.

Review :
"[A] most useful body of information because it is the one source that could help both students and teachers as well as researchers to discover the meaning of words that are new to them. Because of the unique topic, many different sources and their meanings and interpretations are necessary. The Dictionary clearly describes the meanings and clarifies many new ideas. Only persons with many years experience working with varied people who were a part of this ghastly period in history as well as experienced in reading, writing, and lecturing in the field could possibly have completed a work as outstanding as this."-Irene G. Shur Professor of History West Chester University "This is the kind of book that makes you wonder why someone hadn't done it 40 years ago. It fills a need...because [it] is so comprehensive."-Harry James Cargas Professor Emeritus Webster University .,."provides a great deal of information in a compact form....This information has a great deal of impact. It brings the events to life for readers and helps them understand what happened. This work is a welcome addition for public, school, and academic libaries."-ARBA ?...provides a great deal of information in a compact form....This information has a great deal of impact. It brings the events to life for readers and helps them understand what happened. This work is a welcome addition for public, school, and academic libaries.?-ARBA ?[T]he dictionary's entries are not only succinct but also passionless in a reportorial objectivity that gives them unimpeachable credibility and authority....No collection on 20th-century history will be complete without this.?-Rettig on Reference ?This dictionary covers all aspects of the Holocaust--people, places and events.... Data contained in the entries take the information beyond 1945 and include war crimes and trials. Information on the postliberation whereabouts of many Nazis is included.... Although most of the entries deal with the Jewish situation, coverage of Nazi victimization of other groups is included. High-school or academic libraries looking for basic Holocaust information should consider this work. It is a good ready-reference supplement...?-Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin ?This is an eminently useful reference work that contains some 2,000 entries relating to the Holocaust. These entries are succinct (rarely longer than a paragraph) and in most cases include biographical references.?-Dimensions "ÝT¨he dictionary's entries are not only succinct but also passionless in a reportorial objectivity that gives them unimpeachable credibility and authority....No collection on 20th-century history will be complete without this."-Rettig on Reference ..."provides a great deal of information in a compact form....This information has a great deal of impact. It brings the events to life for readers and helps them understand what happened. This work is a welcome addition for public, school, and academic libaries."-ARBA "[T]he dictionary's entries are not only succinct but also passionless in a reportorial objectivity that gives them unimpeachable credibility and authority....No collection on 20th-century history will be complete without this."-Rettig on Reference "This is an eminently useful reference work that contains some 2,000 entries relating to the Holocaust. These entries are succinct (rarely longer than a paragraph) and in most cases include biographical references."-Dimensions "This dictionary covers all aspects of the Holocaust--people, places and events.... Data contained in the entries take the information beyond 1945 and include war crimes and trials. Information on the postliberation whereabouts of many Nazis is included.... Although most of the entries deal with the Jewish situation, coverage of Nazi victimization of other groups is included. High-school or academic libraries looking for basic Holocaust information should consider this work. It is a good ready-reference supplement..."-Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin