The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum encyclopedia of camps and ghettos, 1933-1945.

General editor: Geoffrey P. Megargee.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

v. 1, part A. The early National Socialist concentration camps. Introduction to the early camps -- Camps and subcamp under the SS-inspectorate of concentration camps/business administration main office. The genesis and structure of the National Socialist concentration camps ; Arbeitsdorf main camp ; Auschwitz I main camp ; Auschwitz II-Birkenau main camp ; Auschwitz III-Monowitz main camp (aka Buna) ; Auschwitz subcamp system ; Bergen-Belsen main camp ; Buchenwald main camp ; Buchenwald subcamp system ; Dachau main camp ; Dachau subcamp system ; Flossenbürg main camp ; Flossenbürg subcamp system ; Gross-Rosen main camp ; Gross-Rosen subcamp system ; Herzogenbusch main camp (aka Vught) ; Hinzert main camp ; Kauen main camp (aka Kaunas, Kovno, Kowno, also Slobadka) -- volume 1, part B. Krakau-Plaszow main camp ; Lublin main camp (aka Majdanek) ; Mauthausen main camp ; Mauthausen subcamp system ; Mittelbau main camp (aka Dora) ; Mittelbau subcamp system ; Natzweiler-Struthof main camp (aka Natzweiler, Struthof) ; Natzweiler subcamp system ; Gruppe "Wüste" complex ; Neuengamme main camp ; Neuengamme subcamp system ; Ravensbrück main camp ; Ravensbrück subcamp system ; Riga-Kaiserwald main camp (aka Mez̆aparks) ; Sachsenhausen main camp ; Sachsenhausen subcamp system ; SS-Baubrigaden and SS-Eisenbahnbaubrigaden ; Stutthof main camp ; Stutthof subcamp system ; Vaivara main camp ; Warschau main camp ; Wewelsburg main camp (aka Niederhagen) -- Youth camps. Introduction to youth camps.

v. 2, part A. Incorporated eastern territories. Zichenau region (Regierungsbezirk Zichenau) ; Warthegau region (Reichsgau Wartheland) ; Eastern Upper Silesia region (Ost-Oberschlesien) -- Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (Protekrorat Böhmen und Mahren) -- General Government (Generalgouvernement). Radom region (Distrikt Radom) ; Warsaw region (Distrikt Warschau) ; Kraków region (Distrikt Krakau); Lublin region (Distrikt Lublin); Eastern Galicia region (Distrikt Galizien) -- Białystok region (Distrikt Bialystok) -- volume 2, part B. Reich Commissariat Ostland (Reichskommissariat Ostland) ; Estonia and Latvia regions (Generalkommissariat Estland und Generalkommissariat Lettland) ; Lithuania region (Generalkommissariat Litauen) ; Weissruthenien region (Generalkommissariat Weissruthenien) -- Reich Commissariat Ukraine (Reichskommissariat Ukraine). Volhynia and Podolia region (Generalkommissariat Wolhynien und Podolien) ; Zhytomyr region (Generalkommissariat Shitomir) ; Kiev region (Generalkommissariat Kiew) ; Nikolaev and Dnepropetrovsk regions (Generalkommissariate Nikolajew und Dnjepropetrowsk) -- Regions of the USSR under German military occupation. Eastern Belorussia region ; Eastern Ukraine and Crimea region ; Occupied Russian Territory -- German-occupied Greece.

Created by the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the monumental 7-volume encyclopaedia that the present work inaugurates will make available - in one place for the first time - detailed information about the universe of camps, sub-camps, and ghettos established and operated by the Nazis - altogether some 20,000 sites, from Norway to North Africa and from France to Russia. This volume covers three groups of camps: the early camps established in the first year of Hitler's rule, the major concentration camps with their constellations of sub-camps that operated under the control of the SS-Business Administration Main Office, and youth camps. Overview essays precede entries on individual camps and sub-camps. Each entry provides basic information about the purpose of the site; the prisoners, guards, working and living conditions; and key events in its history. Material drawn from personal testimonies helps convey the character of each site, while source citations for each entry provide a path to additional information.

Association of Jewish Libraries Judaica Reference Award, 2010.