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Author :Jan Tomasz Gross Publisher :Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press ISBN 13 :9780691093819 Total Pages :343 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (938 download)
Book Synopsis Polish Society Under German Occupation by : Jan Tomasz Gross
Download or read book Polish Society Under German Occupation written by Jan Tomasz Gross and published by Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Description for this book, Polish Society Under German Occupation: The Generalgouvernement, 1939-1944, will be forthcoming.
Book Synopsis Polish Society Under German Occupation by : Jan T. Gross
Download or read book Polish Society Under German Occupation written by Jan T. Gross and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By combining historical and political analysis with a sophisticated sociological approach, Jane Gross offers a new itnerpretations of the German occupation of Poland during World War II. Based on his hypothesis that a society cannot be destroyed by coercion short of the physical annihilation of its members, his work has a twofold aim; to examine the model of German occupation in theory and in practice, and to identify the patterns of collective behavior that emerged among the Polish people in response to the social control exercised over them. The author argues taht when an occupier provdies no institutions through which a lcoal population can at least minimally satisfy its social needs, the subjugated populace builds substituted institutions on the remnants of previous forms of its collective life. These substitutes constitute the society's self-defense, to which the occupier must in some way adjust if its goals of manipulation and exploitation are to be achieved. Professor Gross points out numerous ways in which the Poles under the General gouvernement circumvented the goals and authority of the German occupiers. Most significant was the emergence of the Polish underground, which took on the leadership, social welfare, political, and financial functions of an independent state. This phenomenon, he concludes, shows that resistance should not be conceived merely as a military movement but rather as a complex social phenomenon. Jan Tomasz Gross is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Yale University. Originally published in 1979. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Book Synopsis Polish Society Under German Occupation by : Jan Tomasz Gross
Download or read book Polish Society Under German Occupation written by Jan Tomasz Gross and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945 by : Joshua D. Zimmerman
Download or read book The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945 written by Joshua D. Zimmerman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-05 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zimmerman examines the attitude and behavior of the Polish Underground towards the Jews during the Holocaust.
Book Synopsis In the Shadow of Auschwitz by : Daniel Brewing
Download or read book In the Shadow of Auschwitz written by Daniel Brewing and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2022-06-10 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nazi invasion of Poland was the first step in an unremittingly brutal occupation, one most infamously represented by the network of death camps constructed on Polish soil. The systematic murder of Jews in the camps has understandably been the focus of much historical attention. Less well-remembered today is the fate of millions of non-Jewish Polish civilians, who—when they were not expelled from their homeland or forced into slave labor—were murdered in vast numbers both within and outside of the camps. Drawing on both German and Polish sources, In the Shadow of Auschwitz gives a definitive account of the depredations inflicted upon Polish society, tracing the ruthless implementation of a racial ideology that cast ethnic Poles as an inferior race.
Book Synopsis Night Without End by : Jan Grabowski
Download or read book Night Without End written by Jan Grabowski and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three million Polish Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, wiping out nearly 98 percent of the Jewish population who had lived and thrived there for generations. Night Without End tells the stories of their resistance, suffering, and death in unflinching, horrific detail. Based on meticulous research from across Poland, it concludes that those who were responsible for so many deaths included a not insignificant number of Polish villagers and townspeople who aided the Germans in locating and slaughtering Jews. When these findings were first published in a Polish edition in 2018, a storm of protest and lawsuits erupted from Holocaust deniers and from people who claimed the research was falsified and smeared the national character of the Polish people. Night Without End, translated and published for the first time in English in association with Yad Vashem, presents the critical facts, significant findings, and the unmistakable evidence of Polish collaboration in the genocide of Jews.
Book Synopsis Remembering Occupied Warsaw by : Erica L. Tucker
Download or read book Remembering Occupied Warsaw written by Erica L. Tucker and published by Northern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a rare glimpse into the lives of those who lived through the German occupation of Poland's capital, this important ethnography explores how elderly residents of Warsaw recollect, narrate, and commemorate their experiences, thus showing how the cultural legacies of the occupation reveal themselves in contemporary Polish society. The individuals who are the focus of this study, all long-time residents of the Warsaw neighborhood Zoliborz, responded to the daily deprivations and brutality of the German occupation by joining branches of the Polish underground, ultimately participating in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944—during which their neighborhood was burned, but not destroyed—as soldiers, couriers, and medics. Using life histories and ethnographic fieldwork, Tucker examines the ways that her informants recovered from the rupture of war, arguing that this process was connected to efforts to rebuild the city itself. Remembering Occupied Warsaw makes an important contribution to studies of collective memory. A moving work of oral history, this book will appeal to scholars and students of anthropology, sociology, and East European studies, as well as general readers interested in Polish history.
Download or read book Poland 1939 written by Roger Moorhouse and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "chilling" and "expertly" written history of the 1939 September Campaign and the onset of World War II (Times of London). For Americans, World War II began in December of 1941, with the bombing of Pearl Harbor; but for Poland, the war began on September 1, 1939, when Hitler's soldiers invaded, followed later that month by Stalin's Red Army. The conflict that followed saw the debut of many of the features that would come to define the later war-blitzkrieg, the targeting of civilians, ethnic cleansing, and indiscriminate aerial bombing-yet it is routinely overlooked by historians. In Poland 1939, Roger Moorhouse reexamines the least understood campaign of World War II, using original archival sources to provide a harrowing and very human account of the events that set the bloody tone for the conflict to come.
Book Synopsis Hunt for the Jews by : Jan Grabowski
Download or read book Hunt for the Jews written by Jan Grabowski and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-09 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing account of Polish cooperation with Nazis in WWII—a “grim, compelling [and] significant scholarly study” (Kirkus Reviews). Between 1942 and 1943, thousands of Jews escaped the fate of German death camps in Poland. As they sought refuge in the Polish countryside, the Nazi death machine organized what they called Judenjagd, meaning hunt for the Jews. As a result of the Judenjagd, few of those who escaped the death camps would survive to see liberation. As Jan Grabowski’s penetrating microhistory reveals, the majority of the Jews in hiding perished as a consequence of betrayal by their Polish neighbors. Hunt for the Jews tells the story of the Judenjagd in Dabrowa, Tarnowska, a rural county in southeastern Poland. Drawing on materials from Polish, Jewish, and German sources created during and after the war, Grabowski documents the involvement of the local Polish population in the process of detecting and killing the Jews who sought their aid. Through detailed reconstruction of events, “Grabowski offers incredible insight into how Poles in rural Poland reacted to and, not infrequently, were complicit with, the German practice of genocide. Grabowski also, implicitly, challenges us to confront our own myths and to rethink how we narrate British (and American) history of responding to the Holocaust” (European History Quarterly).
Download or read book Fear written by Jan Gross and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2007-08-14 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An astonishing and heartbreaking study of the Polish Holocaust survivors who returned home only to face continued violence and anti-Semitism at the hands of their neighbors “[Fear] culminates in so keen a shock that even a student of the Jewish tragedy during World War II cannot fail to feel it.”—Elie Wiesel FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD Poland suffered an exceedingly brutal Nazi occupation during the Second World War, in which 90 percent of the country’s three and a half million Jews perished. Yet despite this unprecedented calamity, Jewish Holocaust survivors returning to their hometowns in Poland after the war were further subjected to terror and bloodshed. The deadliest peacetime pogrom in twentieth-century Europe took place in the Polish town of Kielce on July 4, 1946. In Fear, Jan T. Gross addresses a vexing question: How was this possible? At the center of his investigation is a detailed reconstruction of the Kielce pogrom and how ordinary Poles responded to the spectacle of Jews being murdered by their fellow citizens. Anti-Semitism, Gross argues, became a common currency between the Communist regime and a society in which many were complicit in the Nazi campaign of plunder and murder—and for whom the Jewish survivors were a standing reproach. For more than half a century, the fate of Jewish Holocaust survivors in Poland was cloaked in guilt and shame. Writing with passion, brilliance, and fierce clarity, Jan T. Gross brings to light a truth that must never be ignored. Praise for Fear “That a civilized nation could have descended so low . . . such behavior must be documented, remembered, discussed. This Gross does, intelligently and exhaustively.”—The New York Times Book Review “Gripping . . . an especially powerful and, yes, painful reading experience . . . illuminating and searing.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review “Gross tells a devastating story. . . . One can only hope that this important book will make a difference.”—Boston Sunday Globe “A masterful work that sheds necessary light on a tragic and often-ignored aspect of postwar history.”—Booklist (starred review) “Astonishing . . . Gross supplies impeccable documentation.”—Baltimore Sun “Compelling . . . Gross builds a meticulous case.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Book Synopsis The Polish Underground State by : Stefan Korboński
Download or read book The Polish Underground State written by Stefan Korboński and published by New York : Hippocrene Books. This book was released on 1981 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Minor Apocalypse by : Robert E. Blobaum
Download or read book A Minor Apocalypse written by Robert E. Blobaum and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Minor Apocalypse, Robert Blobaum explores the social and cultural history of Warsaw's "forgotten war" of 1914–1918. Beginning with the bank panic that accompanied the outbreak of the Great War, Blobaum guides his readers through spy scares, bombardments, mass migratory movements, and the Russian evacuation of 1915. Industrial collapse marked only the opening phase of Warsaw’s wartime economic crisis, which grew steadily worse during the German occupation. Requisitioning and strict control of supplies entering the city resulted in scarcity amid growing corruption, rapidly declining living standards, and major public health emergencies. Blobaum shows how conflicts over distribution of and access to resources led to social divisions, a sharp deterioration in Polish-Jewish relations, and general distrust in public institutions. Women’s public visibility, demands for political representation, and perceived threats to the patriarchal order during the war years sustained one arena of cultural debate. New modes of popular entertainment, including cinema, cabaret, and variety shows, created another, particularly as they challenged elite notions of propriety. Blobaum presents these themes in comparative context, not only with other major European cities during the Great War but also with Warsaw under Nazi German occupation a generation later.
Download or read book Survivors written by Jadwiga Biskupska and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Survivors tells the story of life in Nazi occupied Warsaw, a city that was ruthlessly and brutally targeted by Nazi Germany from 1939 to 1944. Jadwiga Biskupska traces how Germany set out to dismantle the Polish nation and state by targeting the Warsaw intelligentsia and explores the intelligentsia's resistance to Nazi occupation.
Book Synopsis Paying for Hitler's War by : Jonas Scherner
Download or read book Paying for Hitler's War written by Jonas Scherner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paying for Hitler's War is a comparative economic study of twelve Nazi-occupied countries during World War II.
Download or read book Neighbors written by Jan T. Gross and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark book that changed the story of Poland’s role in the Holocaust On July 10, 1941, in Nazi-occupied Poland, half of the town of Jedwabne brutally murdered the other half: 1,600 men, women, and children—all but seven of the town’s Jews. In this shocking and compelling classic of Holocaust history, Jan Gross reveals how Jedwabne’s Jews were murdered not by faceless Nazis but by people who knew them well—their non-Jewish Polish neighbors. A previously untold story of the complicity of non-Germans in the extermination of the Jews, Neighbors shows how people victimized by the Nazis could at the same time victimize their Jewish fellow citizens. In a new preface, Gross reflects on the book’s explosive international impact and the backlash it continues to provoke from right-wing Polish nationalists who still deny their ancestors’ role in the destruction of the Jews.
Author :Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Publisher :Dale Street Books ISBN 13 :9781941656105 Total Pages :230 pages Book Rating :4.6/5 (561 download)
Book Synopsis German Occupation of Poland by : Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Download or read book German Occupation of Poland written by Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and published by Dale Street Books. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "German Occupation of Poland" is a shocking report prepared by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1941. It describes in horrifying detail the Nazi reign of terror in German-occupied Poland. Included are texts of immoral Nazi laws designed to destroy the Polish culture and enslave its population. Also included are detailed eyewitness accounts of Nazi atrocities-the theft of national treasures, seizure of personal property, deportation of Poles to Germany as forced labor and Polish Jews to ghettos, torture, rape, forced sterilisations, summary executions and mass killings. There are harrowing accounts of Poles executed on the spot for even the slimmest of offenses; in one case a young boy scout simply for wearing his uniform and then his father for trying to intercede. Incomprehensible stories of cruelty-bodies of those executed publicly displayed as a warning to others; whole villages expelled or exterminated, sometimes by locking them inside burning buildings; Polish girls abducted and sent to brothels as punishment against their relatives or their villages; prisoners of war tortured and executed as well as the old, sick, feeble and others considered "useless consumers." A chilling description of life and death at a concentration camp in Auschwitz is also included. This report was meant as a cry for help to Allied partners. But in 1941, while the Allies were sympathetic to the plight of the Poles, they were preoccupied in protecting their own homelands against the Nazi military juggernaut. Britain, France, Australia, New Zealand, India, South Africa and Canada had already declared war on Germany. The Soviet Union had bombed Sweden and Germany invaded Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Holland and then France. The Germans had unleashed a bombing campaign on London from August to November 1940 that claimed the lives of 40,000 British citizens. Originally titled, The German Occupation of Poland: An Extract of Note Addressed to the Governments of the Allied and Neutral Powers on May 3, 1941, it superseded an earlier report commonly known as the Polish White Book, published in 1940. But while the Polish White Book is readily available on the internet, this later report is extremely rare and contains additional documents not contained in the White Book. Great care has been taken in editing this book to retain all the original German and Polish spellings, complete with kreskas, kropkas, ogoneks, strokes, and umlauts. Where words were italicized in the 1941 report to denote foreign words or for emphasis, they are also italicized here to preserve the original intent. The text has also been lightly edited to correct simple grammar and spelling errors. Where edits are more comprehensive, explanatory footnotes are provided. At the time this report was submitted to the Allies, the Polish Government still desperately clung to hopes of rescue. Sadly, it never came. Tragically, as Polish Government officials were to discover, there was no way to avoid what was to come-the deaths of six million Poles-including three million Polish Jews-the theft of private fortunes and public treasures, the wanton destruction of whole cities, including Warsaw, the once elegant capital of Poland. This report is a tragic testament to man's capacity for evil and destruction, if good men do nothing, or sadly, hesitate too long.
Book Synopsis Relations Between Jews and Poles during the Holocaust by : Havi Ben-Sasson
Download or read book Relations Between Jews and Poles during the Holocaust written by Havi Ben-Sasson and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
