'Another historical masterwork... the world's first statistical reference book showing the chronological destruction of the main Jewish communities in Europe during the 1939-45 war' Daily Telegraph

'Indispensable for anyone interested not only in the Holocaust and Jewish history but also for all those who wish to learn more about the wide range of human affairs affecting this planet's destiny' Jerusalem Post

"Chronologically, accompanied by 314 maps, illustrated records of the camps where the six million died as victims of Nazis, combine to make another analysis by the eminent historian, Martin Gilbert, a Fellow at Merton College, Oxford, England, perhaps the most dramatic accounts of what happened to European Jewry under Hitler." Detroit Jewish News

"a very important reference work... highlights graphically every facet of Hitler's twelve year war against the Jews within the broader context of WW II... a must for every college library" Choice

"a record of resistance which, except for the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, has remained largely unknown. Here, where the names of resistance leaders are printed alongside those of camps, the atlas turns into a roll of honour" Jewish Chronicle

"as vivid as it is harrowing...Mr Gilbert's atlas should lay, once and for all, the myth of the Jews submitting, sheepishly, to their fate...many of these maps show both individual escapes and concerted resistance in a tragically one-sided struggle in which the enemy was often not just the German but the local population" Economist

'indispensable to any serious student of the Holocaust" Hadassah Magazine

"One wonders, in the face of a volume such as this, how anyone dares to question the reality of the Holocaust!...Dates, places, numbers, document what is clearly an unparalleled reference work for anyone dealing with tragic era of history." Outlook

"Clear, graphic, and easy to read...it would make an outstanding, if grim, textbook for any high school or university Jewish studies programme" Canadian Jewish News

'An invaluable reference work illustrating events in Europe from 1932 to 1945 through 316 maps, 45 photographs, and an incisive narrative.' ADL Frontline

'Gilbert is the biographer of Churchill as well as an authority on the Holocaust with Auschwitz and the Allies (Choice, Nov. 1981) among his recent works. Moreover, he has produced several historical atlases including the very popular Jewish History Atlas (Choice, Jan. 1970). In this new work, the author has deftly combined his dual talents to produce a very important reference work. In over 300 maps, accompanied with illustrative photos and text, Gilbert highlights graphically every facet of Hitler's 12-year war against the Jews within the broader context of WW II and the immediate post-war years. Nor does he neglect other victims of Hitler such as gypsies, homosexuals, and prisoners of war. Most of the maps range from the significant to the moderate, but a few are trivial and unnecessary. Still, this is a welcome and very useful tool for anyone interested in the Holocaust, and it is a must for every college library.' Choice

'Gilbert's map-filled book adds a new dimension to the reference material now available about the Holocaust. He records the events of the Holocaust chronologically, so they can be seen in the context of the war itself. Gilbert's compelling study points out just how sweeping Hitler's campaign against the Jews was, and how ruthless the Nazis were in carrying out as much of it as they could. It is a reminder of how much poorer the world is for the loss of those six million Jews and the other five million civilians who perished.' Judith P. Smith, Arizona Daily Star

'The Jewish world, indeed the whole literate world, long indebted to Martin Gilbert, is once again in his debt for this brilliantly conceived and meticulously executed atlas. Maps are separate from each other and do not build emotional attack upon emotional attack; and the reader, one might expect, recovers from one before he studies the next. It is not so. Here a historian, a historian of recognised past achievement and impeccable historiographical credentials, has drawn maps illustrating the reach of the Nazi terror, 314 of them in all. And a study of the maps and Gilbert's brief explanations results in an accumulation of hammer blows on the reader's psyche as painful as any of the wounds that fact or fiction in print can inflict. And yet - one is dealing with contemporary history, with "reporting", rather than with any conscious attempt to build a tale of horror... It is an historian's "list", a compilation of data. But its effect is to tell us - and future generations - the history of the obliteration of a people, their life, their culture, their heritage on a whole continent. It could not have been less than odious to have undertaken this task of the historian. In our need to know, we are in deep obligation to Mr Gilbert for having done so. Jewish Press

'...at one and the same time a work of cartography, of historical scholarship, and of piety.' Richard Grunberger, Jewish Chronicle

'...indispensable for anyone interested not only in the Holocaust and Jewish history, but also for those who wish to learn more about the wide range of human affairs affecting this planet's destiny. ...a comprehensive and valuable reference book.' Alexander Zvielli, Jerusalem Post Magazine

'I was indeed fortunate to see Martin Gilbert at work on his Atlas. He invited me to his private study in a nicely situated flat in the Abu Tor quarter of Jerusalem. We sat by an extraordinarily long table piled at least half a metre high with books, maps, documents and neatly annotated manuscripts. Unlike many intellectuals Martin Gilbert has a clear and precise handwriting. He continued making notes, moving around the table and comparing sources. He was travelling far, from the Judean mountains and the Mediterranean to that old, accursed Europe which allowed such a tragedy as the Holocaust to happen. He told me about Crete, where Jews lived from time immemorial, until the Nazis shipped them out. Gilbert needed no computer; he had all the information right there. In exactly a quarter of an hour he found out everything he wanted to know about my wartime experiences. He made the entry in his index and the interview was over. Martin Gilbert is a very thorough scholar. Obviously, thoroughness is to be expected from a Fellow of Mertin College, Oxord, and the official biographer of Sir Winston Churchill, but to his grat credit Gilbert also possesses absolute intellectual honesty and an extremely warm heart. He is an intellectual who believes in men as rulers over their own destiny, and thus is interested in every individual. He is, above all, a born investigator who divides his research equally between his library and work in the field. He is simultaneously kind, inquisitive and perceptive and has a way of asking questions no one else would have even thought of. Gilbert worked on his Atlas for seven years. Seven is indeed a magic biblical number for a job well done. An average atlas combines geography and statistics. He Atlas of the Holocaust is a multi-dimensional achievement. It comprises, in a single volume, history, politics, demography and geography and above all personal testimonies all arranged in perfect chronological order.' Alexander Zvielli, Jerusalem Post Magazine

'The book's maps and capsule descriptions make it a valuable addition to the collection of books on the Holocaust. It would make an outstanding, if grim textbook for any high school or university Jewish studies programme.' David Birkan, Canadian Jewish News

'...adds an extra dimension to our record of the Holocaust.' Michael Rosenstock, AJR Information

'No where is the localised nature of the Holocaust captured better than in this important new reference work... ...a clear, reasonably priced work which will be indispensable to any serious student of the Holocaust.' Daavid M. Szonyi, Hadassah Magazine

'Dates, places, numbers document what is clearly an unparalleled reference for anyone dealing with this tragic era of history.' Women's League Outlook

'Mr Gilbert's Atlas, should lay, once and for all the myth of the Jews submitting, sheepishly to their fate... many of these maps show both individual escapes and concerted resistance, in a tragically one-sided struggle in which the enemy was often not just the German but the local population.' Economist

'Gilbert...traces with 300 maps the fates of individual Jews and their families in exile from their home towns. As a result of his findings, dozens more British Jews are able to observe the anniversaries of their parents' deaths.' The Times

'...in this Atlas, which traces the Jewish story, mention has frequently been made, often as an integral part of the Jewish fate, of the murder of non-Jews. These include Polish civilians killed after Poland's capitulation, the first, mostly non-Jewish, victims at Auschwitz, the tens of thousands of victims of the Nazi euthanasia programme, the non-Jews killed with Jews in the slave labour camps of the Sahara, the Serbs killed with Jews in April 1941 and January 1942, the Czech villagers massacred at Lidice, the Poles expelled and murdered in the Zamosc province, the Gypsies deported to the death camps, the non-Jews killed with Jews in the reprisal action in Rome, Greeks and Italians taken hostage and drowned with Jews in the Aegean, the French villagers massacres at Oradour-sur-Glane, and the tens of thousands of Gypsies, Russian prisoners-of-war, Spanish republicans, Jehovah's Witnesses and homosexuals murdered at Mauthausen. The chronological record compiled by Dr Gilbert lists these sufferers as well as the Jewish victims. The Gilbert approach to retaining the historical record is immense, and at the same time deeply moving.' Detroit Jewish News

'Martin Gilbert, the outstanding official biographer of Winston Churchill, and the greatest Jewish historian of our time has produced a book of unrivalled value and importance in the "Atlas of the Holocaust". It tells in superb graphic form heart-rending photography and outstanding literary text the most catastrophic period of Jewish History, the bestial liquidation of six million Jewish innocents, men, women and children. It traces the chronological sequence of events from the rise of Nazi Germany to the end of World War II and its effect on the Jews of Europe in 316 maps, meticulously drawn, easily comprehensible and clearly marked. The technique of using maps, statistics, and diagrams, is in keeping with the most modern technological and mathematical methods of recording and preserving vital data and has made this book and its erudite author "primus inter pares". His compilation of facts is the most damning testimony of Nazi brutality. He, himself, is a living computer of the twisted, schizophrenic Kultur of the so-called "Herrenvolk" and the use to which it was put. The long list of acknowledgements at the back of the book is in itself a testament (albeit a painful one) to the painstaking care, authentic research documentation and verification of all the facts and statistics necessary to undertake a volume of such immense importance. It is a further tribute to Martin Gilbert's statute as a historian, that apart from using the above-mentioned attributes of the historian's craft, he contrived to be objective. Professor Yehuda Bauer writes at the beginning of the book "With all the resources in the world it is impossible to show, or even to know, all that was done." There are 316 maps in the book, (the compilation of these is surely a monumental task) which show in chronological order a sequence the destruction of the main Jewish communities in Europe and, especially the fate of seventeen individual Jews, including the great historian Simon Dubnov, authors, artists and actors, a chemist and educators. Acts of resistance, courage, escape and uprising are recorded in this volume. It was not always a case of sheep led to the slaughter. The Nazi aim to make Europe "Judenrein" can only be recorded in such a volume, words alone are not enough to describe the sub-human activities of the Nazi megalomaniacs. Maps and figures are more cold-blooded and are the finest way to show the enormity of one of the most tragic periods of our history. The life, heritage and culture of whole communities and their future generations can never be obliterated when we have such a book to remind us and permanently record in our hearts and minds what really happened. One can look through the pages and see names of villages, towns and cities so dear and familiar to many of us, seats of learning, great Yeshivot, centres of Chasidic Rebbes and great commentators, birthplaces and famous Yiddish writers, poets, artists and world-renowned Chazanim, all destroyed. It is a book which every Jew will read and study wth sorrow, if only to find and trace the area from which his ancestors came. The book is also a history of World War II in Europe, as each phase of the war affected European Jewry specifically and as the pendulum swung against the Germans, Jewry's fate was sealed. No part of the Nazi dominated territory is omitted. The hall-mark of every outstanding historian is (wherever possible) impartiality and Martin Gilbert has shown this objectivity by not omitting to record the fate of, at least, six million non-Jews who were also annihilated by deliberate planned mass murder. Thus, the "Atlas of the Holocaust" has universal appeal. Even if one took away the fine cartography, authentic photography and meticulous research, the written commentary which links the map-work is an outstanding piece of literary attainment and of great historical significance. This volume is a "must" in every Jewish and non-Jewish household that thinks of the future and cares for the past. Every school (especially Jewish schools), Institute of Learning and Synagogue should include it in their libraries. The meaning and purpose of the twentieth century words "genocide", "total liquidation" "final solution" become indelibly stamped on the mind after reading this tragic memorial to our lost brethren. Who knows what genius was lost to mankind's future and how many Jewish generations one million destroyed children would have produced? No words of praise or thanks are sufficient to Martin Gilbert and his associates for producing this invaluable and outstanding contribution to Jewish and World History, a terrible and eternal indictment of Man's in-humanity and bestiality to Man.' Lily Shine, Jewish People

In contrast to the usual treatment of the topic, Gilbert also directs attenttion to resistance, to the fate of individuals, and to the full range of the Holocaust. The successful use of very different scales enables him to present the Holocaust at all its levels.... The Atlas is well-researched and provides a strong indictment of the horrors of the Holocaust. Professor Jeremy Black, The Bulletin of the Society of Cartographers.