The Geographical Encyclopedia of the Holocaust in Hungary

The Geographical Encyclopedia of the Holocaust in Hungary Synopsis

The illustrated three-volume Geographical Encyclopedia of the Holocaust in Hungary is a magisterial resource, thorough and exhaustive, chronicling the wartime fate of the Jewish communities in that country where virulent antisemitism is anything but dead, even today. With scores of detailed maps and hundreds of photographs, this reference work is organised alphabetically by county, each prefaced with a map and a con­textual history describing its Jewish population up to and into 1944. Entries track the demographic, cultural, and religious changes in even the smallest communities where Jews lived before their marginalisation, dispossession, ghettoisation, and, finally, deportation to labour and death camps. The encyclopaedia endows scholars and lay researchers with both panoramic and microscopic views of the virtually last-minute destruction of most of the Jews of Hungary, until then the last sizable sur­viving Jewish community in occupied Europe.