The Holocaust: A Guide to Europe's Sites, Memorials and Museums

Rosie Whitehouse author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bradt Travel Guides

Published:4th Oct '24

Should be back in stock very soon

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. Far-reaching PR campaign: widespread publicity assured . 2025 will mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Holocaust . One-of-a-kind travel guidebook . Up to date: features recently opened museums and memorials . User-friendly format targeted at travellers . Written by a travel writer and journalist specialising in Jewish life after the Holocaust About Bradt Travel Guides . Founded in 1974, Bradt is now the largest independent guidebook publisher in the UK with over 200 titles in print . Serial winner of the Gold award for Best Guidebook Series in the Wanderlust Reader Travel Awards . Bradt guides are written by authors who really know their destinations. Many are resident there, or have been visiting regularly over a number of years

Travel guidebook to the Holocaust. A unique visitor's guide to Europe's sites, museums and memorials that tell the story of the Nazi genocide of 6 million Jews. Wide-ranging coverage extends from Scandinavia to south-east Europe, and from France to Belarus. Includes advice on travel tips, where to stay and eat, and organisations running tours.New from Bradt is The Holocaust: Europe's Sites, Museums and Memorials, a unique travel guidebook to European locations that tell the story of the greatest crime ever perpetrated - the Nazi genocide of 6 million Jews and other persecuted groups. In recent years countries once reluctant to delve into the dark corners of their past have begun to document the history of the Holocaust and its aftermath. Europe has many new ground-breaking museums and memorials that tell us as much about the present as they do the past. Chapters are dedicated to each country or region occupied by Nazi Germany, plus nations like the UK and neutral Sweden, which played a vital role both before and after the Holocaust. Organised around city hubs in each country, this Bradt guide helps visitors explore numerous destinations, whether infamous, well known or comparatively unexpected. This is much, much more than a guide to notorious sites such as Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald or Dachau. You can take a walking tour in Vienna, to view the new wall of names. Or visit the Memorial des Martyrs de la Deportation in Paris, Anne Frank House in Amsterdam or the Jewish Museum in Ferrara. And you can learn how babies were smuggled out of the Kovno ghetto in potato sacks in Lithuania or read about Bavaria's Kloster Indersdorf, a remarkable children's home that cared for survivors. Written by a journalist and travel writer specialising in Jewish history, Bradt's The Holocaust: Europe's Sites, Museums and Memorials provides the traveller with not only a list of must-see sites in each country but also a comprehensive list of organisations that run tours, commemorations and volunteer schemes. Suggestions of where to eat and stay (including Kosher restaurants and hotels) ease the traveller's way, as do descriptions of local Jewish organisations and tips on how to pace potentially difficult journeys into Europe's dark past. Bradt's The Holocaust: Europe's Sites, Museums and Memorials is the first comprehensive travel guide to the genocide and the first to help the traveller understand the Holocaust by seeing the places where it unfurled.

ISBN: 9781804691960

Dimensions: 216mm x 135mm x 15mm

Weight: 370g

360 pages