Historical Atlas of the Holocaust: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

An extensively researched and superbly presented work, this atlas features more than 230 color maps 'produced for the Wexner Learning Center of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.' Many sources were used by center cartographer Dewey Hicks and historian William Meinecke in their preparation of the maps, including 'period maps from the Germany army mapping service; Allied and German aerial photographs; political and strategic maps from the U.S. State Department and the Office of Strategic Services (OSS); railway and city maps from various European countries; and a great number of textual records.' Unlike many thematic atlases, this one contains no photographs, just maps and explanatory text. Arranged chronologically, the atlas concentrates primarily on the specific places of extermination, such as the death camps and ghettos. Thus, it complements rather than competes with Martin Gilbert's Atlas of the Holocaust RBB N 15 93, which concentrated more on thematic maps showing the deportation and extermination of Jews, rather than on specific camps. Arranged in nine sections, this new volume opens with a map, 'Europe 1933,' and concludes with 'European Jewish Population Distribution Circa 1950.' It includes maps depicting sections of Europe in general as well as maps detailing specific camps.