Included are camps, ghettos, places of underground activity, and places of anti-Jewish activity. The introduction is divided into 32 short parts on different aspects of the Holocaust and the Jewish experience in France. Many of the notes and citations in this section are in French. The gazetteer itself, is in English and French, with a smattering of German. Entries are divided by county and within each county, alphabetically by place name.
Most entries have excerpts from documents as part of the description.
The appendix, which is composed of documents of a non-geographic type, is also in French.