People of the holocaust

About this book

People of the Holocaust presents biographies of 60 women and men who participated in or were affected by the Holocaust. Among the people profiled in each of the two volumes are Nazi perpetrators and their victims, world leaders and policy makers, and those who showed their humanity and courage by resisting Nazi leader Adolf Hitler's reign of genocidal terror. People of the Holocaust includes not only biographies of readily recognizable figures of the Holocaust era, such as Nazi official Heinrich Himmler, U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt, and Holocaust victim and diarist Anne Frank, it also includes profiles of lesser-known people, such as Jewish photographer Mendel Grossman, whose photographs testify to the inhumane conditions of the Krakow ghetto, and British agent Odette Marie Sansom Churchill, who was tortured by the Gestapo. Black-and-white illustrations plus sidebars, cross references, and further reading accompany the entries. Each volume concludes with a cumulative subject index. - Back cover.