title: The Holocaust Overview (The Holocaust Remembered Series)
author:  Ann Byers 
description: In this introductory volume to the Holocaust Remembered series, Byers presents a comprehensive and dramatic history of the Holocaust aimed at middle-schoolers. Tracing anti-Semitism back to its earliest expression Byers shows how hatred against th e Jews, coupled with the rise of National Socialism, provided the force that swept Adolf Hitler to power. She makes clear that, from the very beginning, Hitler methodically conducted a reign of terror against European Jews: boycotts of Jewish businesses, harassment conducted on city streets, the creation of the Nuremburg Laws, and much more. She also outlines the four-part strategy to eliminate the Jews: exclusion, expulsion, enclosure, and ultimately, extermination. Numerous black-and-white period photog raphs provide evidence of the horrors of WWII. This is a solid introduction to the series, but is also effective as a stand-alone volume, a starting point in the curriculum. (chronology, notes, glossary, further reading, index) (Nonfiction. 10-12) -- <i> Copyright 1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.</i>
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  [Title Page](part0000.html)  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Introduction](part0003.html)  
    
  
  
  [PART I \- The Legacy of War](part0004.html)  
  
  
  [1 \- Physical Destruction](part0005.html)  
  
  
  [2 \- Absence](part0006.html)  
  
  
  [Death Toll](part0006.html#title5)  
  
  
  [The Vanishing of the Jews](part0006.html#title6)  
  
  
  [Other Holocausts](part0006.html#title7)  
  
  
  [Widows and Orphans](part0006.html#title8)  
  
  
  [3 \- Displacement](part0007.html)  
  
  
  [4 \- Famine](part0008.html)  
  
  
  [5 \- Moral Destruction](part0009.html)  
  
  
  [Looting and Theft](part0009.html#title12)  
  
  
  [The Black Market](part0009.html#title13)  
  
  
  [Violence](part0009.html#title14)  
  
  
  [Rape](part0009.html#title15)  
  
  
  [Morality and Children](part0009.html#title16)  
  
  
  [6 \- Hope](part0010.html)  
  
  
  [The Cult of Heroism](part0010.html#title18)  
  
  
  [Brotherhood and Unity](part0010.html#title19)  
  
  
  [A Brave New World](part0010.html#t