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The Persecution and Murder
of the European Jews
by Nazi Germany, 1933–1945

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Volume 9: Poland: General Government, August 1941–1945 (Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2024). Executive editor of VEJ 9: Klaus-Peter Friedrich.

Volume 9
Poland: General Government
August 1941–1945

The General Government was the central site of the mass murder committed during the Holocaust. Systematic murder began with mass shootings following the attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941. The ‘Operation Reinhard’ extermination camps began operation in spring and summer 1942. This volume documents the preparation, planning, and implementation of the systematic mass murder of the Jews in the General Government from summer 1941 to 1945. It sheds light on the Polish population’s reactions; on individual and collective Jewish resistance in the ghettos and the camps, including the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943; and on Jewish and non-Jewish organization’s efforts to inform the world that the Nazis were exterminating the Jews of Poland.

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Documents

This volume contains 296 source documents about the persecution and murder of the Jews in the General Government between August 1941 and 1945.

Archives represented: 44
Maps: 2
Pages: 903

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Maps

This professionally designed map details the specific geographical area in focus in Volume 9.

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General Government, late 1941
General Government, late 1941

Contributors

The efforts of many people went into producing this volume, which is based on its counterpart in the German VEJ series. The contributors are acknowledged here.

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Contributors

The Persecution and Murder of the European Jews by Nazi Germany, 1933–1945

Series edited on behalf of the German Federal Archives, the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ), and the Modern History Research Group at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg
In cooperation with Yad Vashem
Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)

Volume 9

Poland: General Government
August 1941–1945

Editorial Board for the German edition (VEJ):
Susanne Heim, Ulrich Herbert, Michael Hollmann, Horst Möller, Gertrud Pickhan, Dieter Pohl, Simone Walther, and Andreas Wirsching

Editorial and International Advisory Board for the English edition (PMJ):
Nomi Halpern, Elizabeth Harvey, Susanne Heim, Ulrich Herbert, Michael Hollmann, Ingo Loose, Dan Michman, Dieter Pohl, Sybille Steinbacher, Alan E. Steinweis, Nikolaus Wachsmann, Simone Walther-von Jena, and Andreas Wirsching

Executive editor:
Klaus-Peter Friedrich

English-language edition prepared by:
Elizabeth Harvey, Russell Alt-Haaker, Johannes Gamm, Georg Felix Harsch, Dorothy A. Mas, and Caroline Pearce

Translation of the German documents:
David Hill, Alissa Jones Nelson, Kathleen Luft, Caroline Pearce, Martin Pearce, Sarah Pybus, Jessica Spengler, and Isabel Stainsby

Translation of the French and Dutch documents:
Caroline Pearce

Translation of the Hebrew documents:
Yad Vashem (Naftali Greenwood)

Editing assistance for the Hebrew documents:
Ahuva Weiss and Academic Language Experts

Translation of the Polish documents:
George Szenderowicz

Editing assistance for the Polish documents:
Zuzanna Kozlowska and Natan Pawłowski

Translation of the Slovak document:
Isabel Stainsby

Editing assistance for the Slovak document:
Jennifer Taylor

Translation of the Yiddish documents:
Yad Vashem (Rebecca Wolpe)

Proofreading and copyediting:
Rona Johnston Gordon, Alissa Jones Nelson, Melanie Newton, Sarah Pybus, and Merle Read

Map:
Peter Palm and Giles Bennett

Student assistants for the English edition:
Antonia Franke, Lea von der Hude, Ashley Kirspel, Frederik Körber, Aslıhan Özcan, and Charles Perris

Student intern for the English edition:
Leonie Käther

Research associates and assistants for the German edition:
Romina Becker, Giles Bennett, Florian Danecke, Johannes Gamm, Stefanie Haupt, Andrea Löw, Miriam Schelp, Sonja Schilcher, Remigius Stachowiak, Maria Wilke, and Barbara Wünnenberg

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