The con­cen­tra­tion camp expe­ri­ences described here are drawn from orig­i­nal sources and those who lived them. The book opens with fac­ing pages of fif­teen boxed state­ments of piv­otal points in the his­to­ry of the Nazi Era from 1919 through 1943 and five pho­tographs. The intro­duc­tion pro­vides the set­ting and pro­gres­sion of slan­der against the Jews, pro­ject­ing Jews as the cause of all mis­for­tunes fall­en upon Ger­man cit­i­zens, who in turn swal­lowed Hitler’s lies and the offi­cial anti-Semit­ic pro­pa­gan­da. This result­ed in Jews being sent to ghet­tos and con­cen­tra­tion camps rang­ing from labor to death camps. The graph­ic pho­tos in this por­tion show the shriv­eled, starved pris­on­ers lying on the floor wait­ing to die, yet there were some who sur­vived to tes­ti­fy against those who had tor­tured them. This book deliv­ers informa­tion and dis­cus­sions on a vari­ety of top­ics rang­ing from depor­ta­tion and arrival, through descrip­tions in sep­a­rate chap­ters of hous­ing, food, liv­ing con­di­tions, forced labor and exploita­tion of inmates, threats of pun­ish­ment and death, and, final­ly, the mir­a­cles of sur­vival and lib­er­a­tion. Not only are there pho­tos and maps through­out, but also def­i­n­i­tions of the terms used to describe words such as ​“latrine,” Ger­man words, and oth­er words used in the con­text of this top­ic, as well as the inser­tion of per­son­al nar­ra­tives. There are no ​“code” words used to soft­en the facts and some of the pho­tos are grue­some­ly graph­ic, par­tic­u­lar­ly the one of piled up ema­ci­at­ed dead pris­on­ers. Includ­ed are: Source Notes For Fur­ther Research, a lengthy Index and Pic­ture Cred­its. This is a mar­velous intro­duc­tion to the study of the Holo­caust for stu­dents ages 11 and up.