Understanding the Holocaust provides a comprehensive range of historical information and current commentary on the Holocaust. Among the topics discussed in each of the two volumes are Jewish life in Germany before the Holocaust, the rise of the Nazi party, the ghettos, the concentration and death camps, bringing to justice accused Nazi perpetrators of crimes, and how the Holocaust is remembered today. Arranged in fourteen subject chapters over two volumes, Understanding the Holocaust not only focuses on the Jewish victims of the Nazis' reign of terror, but also discusses how other groups, such as the Roma (Gypsies), the Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexuals, were persecuted by the Nazis. Each volume contains black-and-white photos and maps, a timeline, a glossary, an annotated bibliography, and a cumulative subject index. - Back cover.