The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933-1945. Vol. 2: Ghettos in German-Occupied Eastern Europe. Volume 2 bound in two books

Bloomington; Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2011. First printing. Hardcover. vg+ to near fine. Large quarto. (Vol. 2, Part A); XX, [1], [988]-1962pp. (Vol. 2, Part B). Original photo-illustrated glossy paper covered boards. Both Part A and Part B front covers fore edge bumped.

One volume of a monumental 8-volume encyclopedia in the making which will describe the universe of camps and ghettos (some 20,000 in all) that the Nazis and their allies operated, from Norway to North Africa and from France to Russia. For the first time, a single reference work will provide detailed information on each individual site.

Volume II (Parts A and B): Ghettos in German-Occupied Eastern Europe. This volume provides a comprehensive account of how the Nazis conducted the Holocaust throughout the scattered towns and villages of Poland and the Soviet Union. It covers more than 1,150 sites, including both open and closed ghettos. Regional essays outline the patterns of ghettoization in 19 German administrative regions. Each entry discusses key events in the history of the ghetto; living and working conditions; activities of the Jewish Councils; Jewish responses to persecution; demographic changes; and details of the ghetto's liquidation. Personal testimonies help convey the character of each ghetto, while source citations provide a guide to additional information. Documentation of hundreds of smaller sites - previously unknown or overlooked in the historiography of the Holocaust - make this an indispensable reference work on the destroyed Jewish communities of Eastern Europe.

Bindings lightly along bottom edges of covers. Interiors clean. Bindings in very good+, inteiors in near fine condition overall. Forthcoming Volumes:

- Vol. III: CAMPS AND GHETTOS UNDER EUROPEAN REGIMES ALIGNED WITH NAZI GERMANY, including camps and ghettos in, or run by, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, and Vichy France (including North Africa). Editor: Joseph White.

- Vol. IV: CAMPS AND OTHER DETENTION FACILITIES UNDER THE GERMAN MILITARY, including prisoner-of-war camps, military brothels, work camps for Tunisian Jews, and military penal camps and prisons. Editors: Geoffrey Megargee and Rüdiger Overmans.

- Vol. V: EXTERMINATION, FORCED LABOR, AND TRANSIT CAMPS FOR JEWS.  This volume encompasses the various kinds of camps, outside the concentration camp system, that the SS used to hold, persecute, exploit, and murder Jews. Volume Editor: Martin Dean.

- Vol. VI: SS AND POLICE DETENTION SITES, including a variety of penal camps, prisons, and transit camps for mostly non-Jewish prisoners who were the victims of extra-judicial detention. These included so-called work education camps, Gestapo prisons, camps for Roma, and resettlement camps for Poles. Volume Editors: Jan Lambertz and Martin Dean.

- Vol. VII: CAMPS FOR FOREIGN FORCED LABORERS, including tens of thousands of camps for foreign workers, under a variety of governmental and quasi-governmental institutions and private firms. Also includes sites of forced abortion and infanticide. Volume Editors: Joseph White and Martin Dean.

- Vol. VIII: "EUTHANASIA" CENTERS, JUSTICE MINISTRY PRISONS AND CAMPS, AND "GERMANIZATION" FACILITIES. Volume Editor: Patricia Heberer-Rice.