Holocaust: the Jews - eyewitness accounts
TitleHolocaust: the Jews - eyewitness accounts
Author
Call number364.151/0023
Object number02223a
Place of publicationNew York, New York, United States
PublisherGarland Publishing
Year of publication
1997
Physical descriptionpp136-170
MaterialArticle
Series titleGarland reference library of social science ; vol. 772
ISBN815323530
NotesPrevious ed.: published as Genocide in the twentieth century pp136-170
Description
The Holocaust - the systematic extermination of between five and six million Jews through shooting, gassings, and forced labor - was a catastophe on a massive scale. It was closely related to broader Nazi racial policies that led to the murder of very large numbers of Gypsies, Russian and Polish prisoners of war, and Germans who were physically disabled or mentally retarded
