Holocaust Remembrance Day, also known as Yom HaShoah in Hebrew, is a day that commemorates the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. That was the largest uprising by Jews during the World War. This year, it falls on April 27. Due to advanced warning of a final deportation by the Nazis, the residents of the Warsaw ghetto were able to go into hiding to avoid capture. Seven hundred young Jewish resistance fighters fought guerilla style, hiding in places unknown to the Nazis between attacks. Unfortunately, the Nazis chose to tear the ghetto to the ground, block by block, to smoke out those hiding. Tragically, most of the 42,000 residents captured were slaughtered in a two-day shooting operation.
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The Routledge Atlas of the Holocaust
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The harrowing history of the Nazi attempt to annihilate the Jews of Europe during the Second World War is illustrated in this series of 320 highly detailed maps.
The horror of the times is further revealed by shocking photographs. The maps do not concentrate solely on the fate of the Jews; they also set their chronological story in the broader context of the war itself.