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Judenrat

Author : Isaiah Trunk
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803294288
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (942 download)

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Download or read book Judenrat written by Isaiah Trunk and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, more than five million Jews lived under Nazi rule in Eastern Europe. In occupied Poland, the Baltic countries, Byelorussia, and Ukraine, they were stripped of property and “resettled” in ghettos. The German authorities established in each ghetto a Jewish Council, or Judenrat, to maintain minimal living standards. The Judenrat was required to carry out Nazi directives against other Jews, to supply forced labor, and eventually to cooperate in the Final Solution. Did the Jewish leaders of the ghettos, who were also victims, assist their murderers? If cooperation with the Nazi oppressors was morally defensible during the first stage in organizing the ghettos, what about later, when deportations to death camps began? Trunk analyzes situations where the Councils and ghetto police were forced to send their own communities to death. Some Council members chose suicide rather than supply lists to the Nazis; others used delaying tactics. Some handed over the lists. Some joined their families in the gas chamber. In assessing guilt and innocence, Trunk never allows the reader to forget that the impossible choices facing the Jewish leaders were created by the Nazis.

The Jews of Bielorussia During World War II

Author : Shalom Cholawski
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9789057021930
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (219 download)

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Download or read book The Jews of Bielorussia During World War II written by Shalom Cholawski and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1998 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Judenrat

Author : Isaiah Trunk
Publisher : Stein & Day Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780812821703
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book Judenrat written by Isaiah Trunk and published by Stein & Day Pub. This book was released on 1977 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Warsaw Ghetto Police

Author : Katarzyna Person
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501754092
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Warsaw Ghetto Police written by Katarzyna Person and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Warsaw Ghetto Police, Katarzyna Person shines a spotlight on the lawyers, engineers, young yeshiva graduates, and sons of connected businessmen who, in the autumn of 1940, joined the newly formed Jewish Order Service. Person tracks the everyday life of policemen as their involvement with the horrors of ghetto life gradually increased. Facing and engaging with brutality, corruption, and the degradation and humiliation of their own people, these policemen found it virtually impossible to exercise individual agency. While some saw the Jewish police as fellow victims, others viewed them as a more dangerous threat than the German occupation authorities; both were held responsible for the destruction of a historically important and thriving community. Person emphasizes the complexity of the situation, the policemen's place in the network of social life in the ghetto, and the difficulty behind the choices that they made. By placing the actions of the Jewish Order Service in historical context, she explores both the decisions that its members were forced to make and the consequences of those actions. Featuring testimonies of members of the Jewish Order Service, and of others who could see them as they themselves could not, Warsaw Ghetto Police brings these impossible situations to life. It also demonstrates how a community chooses to remember those whose allegiances did not seem clear. Published in Association with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Into the Forest

Author : Rebecca Frankel
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 125026765X
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Into the Forest written by Rebecca Frankel and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2021 National Jewish Book Award Finalist One of Smithsonian Magazine's Best History Books of 2021 "An uplifting tale, suffused with a karmic righteousness that is, at times, exhilarating." —Wall Street Journal "A gripping narrative that reads like a page turning thriller novel." —NPR In the summer of 1942, the Rabinowitz family narrowly escaped the Nazi ghetto in their Polish town by fleeing to the forbidding Bialowieza Forest. They miraculously survived two years in the woods—through brutal winters, Typhus outbreaks, and merciless Nazi raids—until they were liberated by the Red Army in 1944. After the war they trekked across the Alps into Italy where they settled as refugees before eventually immigrating to the United States. During the first ghetto massacre, Miriam Rabinowitz rescued a young boy named Philip by pretending he was her son. Nearly a decade later, a chance encounter at a wedding in Brooklyn would lead Philip to find the woman who saved him. And to discover her daughter Ruth was the love of his life. From a little-known chapter of Holocaust history, one family’s inspiring true story.

Beyond the Conceivable

Author : Dan Diner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520920848
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Conceivable written by Dan Diner and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The major essays of Dan Diner, who is widely read and quoted in Germany and Israel, are finally collected in an English edition. They reflect the author’s belief that the Holocaust transcends traditional patterns of historical understanding and requires an epistemologically distinct approach. One can no longer assume that actors as well as historians are operating in the same conceptual universe, sharing the same criteria of rational discourse. This is particularly true of victims and perpetrators, whose memories shape the distortions of historical narrative in ways often diametrically opposed. The essays are divided into three groups. The first group talks about anti-Semitism in the context of the 1930s and the ideologies that drove the Nazi regime. The second group concentrates on the almost unbelievably different perceptions of the "Final Solution," with particularly illuminating discussions of the Judenrat, or Jewish council. The third group considers the Holocaust as the subject of narrative and historical memory. Diner focuses above all on perspectives: the very notions of rationality and irrationality are seen to be changeable, depending on who is applying them. And because neither rational nor irrational motives can be universally assigned to participants in the Holocaust, Diner proposes, from the perspective of the victims, the idea of the counterrational. His work is directed toward developing a theory of Holocaust historiography and offers, clearly and coherently, the highest level of reflection on these problems.

Escaping Auschwitz

Author : Ruth Linn
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801441301
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book Escaping Auschwitz written by Ruth Linn and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1944 a Slovakian Jew named Rudolf Vrba escaped from Auschwitz and wrote a document about the death camp activities. His words never reached the half million Hungarian Jews who were herded there. The story of that suppression is told here.

The Jews of Bialystok During World War II and the Holocaust

Author : Sara Bender
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584657293
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (572 download)

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Download or read book The Jews of Bialystok During World War II and the Holocaust written by Sara Bender and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2008 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewish society as an active protagonist in the story of the Holocaust

Documents on the Holocaust

Author : Yits?a? Arad
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803259379
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (593 download)

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Download or read book Documents on the Holocaust written by Yits?a? Arad and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 213 documents on the theory, planning, and execution of, and reaction and resistance to, the Nazi plan to exterminate European Jews date from the 1920s through the closing days of World War II and focus on the experience of eastern Europe. The crystallization of the principles of Nazi anti-Semitism, the policies of the Third Reich toward the Jews, the period of segregation and enclosed ghettos, and the stages through which the 'final solution' were implemented are some of the topics covered. Other documents shed light on Jewish public activities and the organization of the Underground and Jewish self-defense. Many of the documents of Jewish origin were not published previously. This comprehensive collection is essential for understanding the history of the Holocaust. Yitzhak Arad has written numerous books, including The Pictorial History of the Holocaust. Israel Gutman is a coeditor of Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp. Abraham Margaliot taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Introducer Steven T. Katz is a professor of religion and the director of the Center for Judaic Studies at Boston University.

A Broken World, 1919-1939

Author : Raymond James Sontag
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Broken World, 1919-1939 written by Raymond James Sontag and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1972 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Judging 'Privileged' Jews

Author : Adam Brown
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782389164
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Judging 'Privileged' Jews written by Adam Brown and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2015-05 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nazis’ persecution of the Jews during the Holocaust included the creation of prisoner hierarchies that forced victims to cooperate with their persecutors. Many in the camps and ghettos came to hold so-called “privileged” positions, and their behavior has often been judged as self-serving and harmful to fellow inmates. Such controversial figures constitute an intrinsically important, frequently misunderstood, and often taboo aspect of the Holocaust. Drawing on Primo Levi’s concept of the “grey zone,” this study analyzes the passing of moral judgment on “privileged” Jews as represented by writers, such as Raul Hilberg, and in films, including Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah and Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List. Negotiating the problems and potentialities of “representing the unrepresentable,” this book engages with issues that are fundamental to present-day attempts to understand the Holocaust and deeply relevant to reflections on human nature.

The Judenräte's role in the holocaust

Author : Florian Seidl
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638522059
Total Pages : 13 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (385 download)

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Download or read book The Judenräte's role in the holocaust written by Florian Seidl and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2006-07-18 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject History of Germany - National Socialism, World War II, grade: 1,7, University of Cape Town (Department of History / Jewish Studies Centre), course: The Holocaust, language: English, abstract: Historically the question of theJudenräte'srole in the holocaust has long been debated. One of the views taken is that, "the Judenräte were forced to become an instrument of the anti-Jewish policies of the authorities. The blows of the Nazis were struck at the Jews through the Judenräte,which acted as an involuntary agent of the occupation in the Jewish community." Yet at the same time others are inclined to view the Judenräte more favourably as an organization that made every effort to save as many people as possible. It is also important to remember thatJ udenräte operated differently within individual ghettos. While some Judenräte chairmen have been remembered in a positive light others have been largely vilified. When the Judenräte were first established, their members were unaware of the Nazis ultimate plans and concerned themselves primarily with the day to day operations of life within the ghetto. Food distribution, work permits, housing needs, generation of finances, these were all major concerns within the ghetto walls. As the horrific nature of Nazi plans became clear many Judenräte focused on saving as many people as possible. Of the labour forces created by the Judenräte Hilberg states: "The factories bought time for tens of thousands, but the Jews were playing a determined game in which the outcome was always under German control." However, in order to save lives,Judenräte were often put in the impossible position of creating a list of those who would be deported to their death. Some Judenräte refused to sacrifice any Jewish lives. Sadly, in the end the decision was taken out of their hands by the Nazis who did not require the Judenrat'sapproval in order to go about their grisly work. Many have argued that regardless of the perceived individual level of collaboration within the varying Judenräte,their very existence was the ultimate form of collaboration. They were entrusted with maintaining order within the ghettos, they created schools, set up newspapers, maintained cultural traditions, at the very moment as the Nazis were formulating plans for their mass murder. As Jewish councils attempted to reconstruct to some degree the trappings of normal life, the Nazis were drawing up the blue prints for the concentration camps.

Rethinking the Holocaust

Author : Yehuda Bauer
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300093001
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking the Holocaust written by Yehuda Bauer and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on research from various historians, the author offers opinions on how to define and explain the Holocaust, comparison to other genocides, and the connection between the Holocaust and the establishment of Israel.

Between Community and Collaboration

Author : Laurien Vastenhout
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009062425
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Between Community and Collaboration written by Laurien Vastenhout and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-22 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive, comparative study of the 'Jewish Councils' in the Netherlands, Belgium and France during Nazi rule. In the postwar period, there was extensive focus on these organisations' controversial role as facilitators of the Holocaust. They were seen as instruments of Nazi oppression, aiding the process of isolating and deporting the Jews they were ostensibly representing. As a result, they have chiefly been remembered as forms of collaboration. Using a wide range of sources including personal testimonies, diaries, administrative documents and trial records, Laurien Vastenhout demonstrates that the nature of the Nazi regime, and its outlook on these bodies, was far more complex. She sets the conduct of the Councils' leaders in their prewar and wartime social and situational contexts and provides a thorough understanding of their personal contacts with the Germans and clandestine organisations. Between Community and Collaboration reveals what German intentions with these organisations were during the course of the occupation, and allows for a deeper understanding of the different ways in which the Holocaust unfolded in each of these countries.

The War Against the Jews

Author : Lucy S. Dawidowicz
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 055334532X
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (533 download)

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Download or read book The War Against the Jews written by Lucy S. Dawidowicz and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1986-03-01 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Books about Nazism are endless, but The War Against the Jews comes to us as a major work of synthesis, providing for the first time a full account of the Holocaust. . . . Dawidowicz has produced a work of high scholarship and profound moral impact.”—Irving Howe, front page review in The New York Times Book Review Here is the unparalleled account of the most awesome and awful chapter in the moral history of humanity. Lucid, chilling and comprehensive, Lucy S. Dawidowicz’s classic tells the complete story of the Nazi Holocaust—from the insidious evolution of German Anti-Semitism to the ultimate tragedy of the Final Solution. “A literary-historical shocker . . . Lucy S. Dawidowicz lifts the bloodstained curtain from Germany’s war against the Jews.”—Houston Post

Holocaust and Memory

Author : Barbara Engelking
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0567342778
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (673 download)

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Download or read book Holocaust and Memory written by Barbara Engelking and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book is the product of a protracted, laborious and scrupulous research and draws on a most extensive and varied assembly of documents. But the archival evidence, factual accounts and even personal narratives would have remained remote, dry and cold if not for the author's remarkable gift of empathy. Barbara Engelking gives the witnesses of the Holocaust a voice which readers of this book will understand....Under her pen memories come alive again."--from the Foreword by Zygmunt BaumanOriginally published in Polish to great acclaim and based on interviews with survivors of the Holocaust in Poland, Holocaust and Memory provides a moving description of their life during the war and the sense they made of it. The book begins by looking at the differences between the wartime experiences of Jews and Poles in occupied Poland, both in terms of Nazi legislation and individual experiences. On the Aryan side of the ghetto wall, Jews could either be helped or blackmailed by Poles. The largest section of the book reconstructs everyday life in the ghetto. The psychological consequences of wartime experiences are explored, including interviews with survivors who stayed on in Poland after the war and were victims of anti-Semitism again in 1968. These discussions bring into question some of the accepted survivor stereotypes found in Holocaust literature. A final chapter looks at the legacy of the Holocaust, the problems of transmitting experience and of the place of the Holocaust in Polish history and culture.

Life Death Memories

Author : Thomas Hecht
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000677915
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Life Death Memories written by Thomas Hecht and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I had an uneventful childhood. My family loved me." The author's direct, personal voice gives this Holocaust memoir its power. Although the writing is direct, almost monosyllabic at times, the book is not intended for young readers. It conveys a brutality that is sudden and close, just as it was for the boy when he heard that his beloved older brother and his father had been shot to death and thrown into a common grave. This is the story of a young boy who came of age before World War II in a small Polish-Jewish-Ukrainian town. Nearly his entire family met their end by gas or by bullet. He survived only by the barest of luck. Among the most moving pages in the book are those the author devotes to the Ukrainian and Polish men and women who found the courage, in the face of savage anti-Semitism raging about them, to come to the aid of the Jewish victims, thus risking death both at the hands of their neighbors and the German masters alike.