A Summer of Mass Murder: 1941 Rehearsal for the Hungarian Holocaust

by George Eisen

Book Overview

Most accounts of the Holocaust focus on trainloads of prisoners speeding toward Auschwitz, with its chimneys belching smoke and flames, in the summer of 1944. This book provides a hitherto untold chapter of the Holocaust by exploring a prequel to the gas chambers: the face-to-face mass murder of Jews in Galicia by bullets.

The summer of 1941 ushered in a chain of events that had no precedent in the rapidly unfolding history of World...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1612497764
• ISBN13: 9781612497761
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"