V

V-2 terror rocket, 579, 598, 673
V-E Day (Victory in Europe Day), 580, 597, 617, 618, 619, 623-24, 660
Vado, Italy, 637
Vaihingen (Germany) camp, 592
Vaillant-Couterier, Marie, 274, 378, 500
Vaivara, Estonia, 477, 536
"Valley of Death," 244
Van Dam, Max, 209
van der Lubbe, Marinus, 59
van Gogh, Vincent, 383
Varna, Bulgaria, 209
Vatican, 511, 512, 538, 284, 330, 375, 403, 408, 490
 beatification of Polish Catholics killed by Nazis, 680
 Capella Guilia Choir, 677
 Commission for Religious Relations, 683
 concordat, 68, 70
 euthanasia condemnation by, 208
 first official endeavor to remember Jewish victims, 676
 firsts for, 677-78
 Pius XI's unpublished encyclical, 556
 policy, 502
 Pope Pius XII silence, 401
 sheltering Jews, 489
Vebell, Ed, 650
Vedem, 298, 561, 564
Veesenmayer, Edmund, 528
Veil, Simone, 522, 693
Vélodrome d'Hiver, 337
Venezia, Isaac, 565
"Vengeance" weapons, 574
Venice, Italy, 581
 film festival 5938, 99
 gondola celebration, 228
 Hitler meets Mussolini, 81
 Jewish Quarter in, 24
 Jews deported to Auschwitz, 497
Vera Cruz, Mexico, 202, 203
Verble, Shmuel, 253
Verbond van Nederlandse Journalisten, 208
Vercors, France, 541
Verfügungstruppen, 83
Vernichtung durch Arbeit, 367, 368
Vernichtungskrieg: Verbrechen der Wehrmacht, 5941-1944, 667
Verona, Italy, 417, 559-60
Versailles Treaty. See Treaty of Versailles
Verschuer, Otmar Freiherr von, 76, 666
Vershovsky, Senitsa, 302
Via Rasella, 519
Vichy (France) regime, 542, 586, 597, 598, 220, 223
 Algerian-Jewish Resistance and, 389
 antisemitism in, 203, 347
 Benoît in, 513
 condemnation of, 686
 Darnand in, 523
 de la Chapelle execution, 403
 deportations and, 333, 360
 dismissal of Robert de Saint-Vincent, 365
 expropriation of Jewish businesses, 247
 Fascism in, 312
 German propaganda poster, 382
 Gypsies and, 320
 Jewish children and, 369
 Jewish Statute, 204, 204, 205
 Laval in, 296, 327, 368
 liberation of, 559
 Lyon priests protest of antisemitism in, 232
 medical experimentation and, 398
 Milice in, 530
 Nazis occupy, 384, 389, 420
 Pétain in, 284, 668
 Resistance in, 252, 314, 389
 restrictions, 261, 323
 Spanish Republicans and, 317
 Touvier in, 650
Victor Emmanuel III, 481, 488
"Victory of Judaism over Germandom: From a Non-Denominational Point of View," 41
Victory of Judaism Over Germanism, The, 27-28
Vienna, Austria, 29, 33, 521, 526, 563, 673, 674
 Academy of Art, 29, 30, 32-33
 art auction, 688, 693
 community dissolved, 384
 deportations from 226, 275, 299, 326, 332, 501, 606
 emigration bureau, 533, 534
 evacuation from, 600
 fugitive Jews on riverboat from, 583
 Hitler in, 29-32, 33,
 Jewish intellectuals in, 478
 Jewish population in, 26, 31
 Nazis force grass eating in, 527
 resettlement action in, 573
 Soviet troops enter, 604
Viliampole (Lithuania) Ghetto, 257
Vilkaviskis, Lithuania, 661
Ville-Le-Grande, France, 540
Vilna (Lithuania) Ghetto, 581, 214, 242, 252, 450
 deportations from 259-60, 471
 elderly handed over, 381
 escapes from 476
 executions in, 244-45, 263, 270, 441, 462, 479
 forced-labor camp, 296, 457
 gate, 433
 Hebrew Ghetto Choir, 414
 identification card, 386
 Jewish Council in, 247, 464-65
 last Jews executed at, 538
 life in, 257
 liquidation of, 407, 480, 481
 performances in, 357
 poetry in, 449
 Resistance in, 213, 214, 291, 303, 336, 371, 393, 464-65, 467, 474, 486, 487, 509, 523, 537, 538, 540
 slave labor in, 262
Vilna (Poland) pogrom, 528
Vinnitsa, Ukraine, 258-59, 266-67, 268
Virbalis, Soviet Union, 235
Visas, 569, 201, 206, 331, 540-41
Vistula River, 317, 412, 585
Vitebsk (Belorussia) Ghetto, 271, 534
Vittel (France) concentration/transit camp, 402, 520, 561
Vladivostok, Russia, 589
Vlasov, Andrei, 618, 624
Vogel, David, 515
Vogel, Hans, 605
Voice of Freedom, The, 503
Volary, Czechoslovakia, 421, 639, 641
Volhynia area, Poland, 283-84, 343-44, 474
Volk (people), 70, 71
Völkisch, 33
Völkischer Beobachter, 34, 39, 67
Volkovysk, Poland, 385
Volksdeutsche, 555, 238, 267
Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle, 515
Volksempfånger, 56
Volksgericht, 79, 542
Volksgerichtshof, 300, 390, 429, 593
Volkstrum, 619
Volkswagen AG, 670, 689, 690, 696
Volyn, 261
Vranetic, Ivan, 494
Vrba, Rudolf, 521
Vrijwillige Hulp-Politie, 318
Vught (Holland) concentration camp, 412, 444
 children sent to Sobibór, 457
 crematorium, 499
 dissection table, 540
 gallows, 539
Vyhne labor camp, 271