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This three-volume encyclopedia, abridged from a 30-volume set in Hebrew and with a foreword by Elie Wiesel, chronicles Jewish life before and during the Holocaust. Arranged alphabetically by town, thousands of entries explore centuries of Jewish life. Some entries, particularly for large cities, provide information on Jewish residents as early as the Middle Ages and discuss the fate of Jews during the Black Death persecutions (1348-1349) and various pogroms from the 17th to 20th centuries. Each entry provides information on the town's Jewish inhabitants on the eve of German occupation, gives the dates of Jewish roundups and mass executions and estimates how many Jews from that community survived the war. Includes more than 600 black-and-white photographs.
Lists 17,949 names of Polish Jews who were registered by the Nazis, now held at the Auschwitz Museum. Covers the whole period of the concentration camp's operation, from 14 July 1940 until 27 January 1945, giving dates of arrival of transports and where they came from. States that the majority of Polish Jews who were victims in Auschwitz perished anonymously; most Polish Jews were murdered in other extermination camps - Treblinka, Sobibór, Bełżec, and Majdanek.