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Hunt for the Jews

Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland

von: Jan Grabowski
1,99 €
Verlag:	Indiana University Press
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	09.10.2013
ISBN/EAN:	9780253010872
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	320

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Titelbeschreibung

Judenjagd, hunt for the Jews, was the German term for the organized searches for Jews who, having survived ghetto liquidations and deportations to death camps in Poland in 1942, attempted to hide "on the Aryan side." Jan Grabowski's penetrating microhistory tells the story of the Judenjagd in Dabrowa Tarnowska, a rural county in southeastern Poland, where the majority of the Jews in hiding perished as a consequence of betrayal by their Polish neighbors. 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, this close-up account of the fates of individual Jews casts a bright light on a little-known aspect of the Holocaust in Poland.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Dąbrowa Tarnowska 2. Jews and Poles in Dąbrowa Tarnowska Before 1939 3. First Years of Occupation 4. The Destruction of Dąbrowa Tarnowska 5. Judenjagd – Hunt for the Jews 6. Rural Society and the Jews in Hiding 7. In the Dulcza Forest 8. The German Police 9. The Polish "Blue" Police 10. Baudienst 11. Last Months of War 12. Different Kinds of Help 13. The Righteous Conclusion Documents & Tables Bibliography

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The betrayal and killing of Jews in German-occupied Poland

Autorenportrait

Jan Grabowski is Professor of History at the University of Ottawa and a founding member of the Polish Center for Holocaust Research. He is author (with Barbara Engelking) of The Contour of a Landscape: Rural Poland and the Extermination of the Jews, 1942-1945 (in Polish).72

Unpublished endorsement

In Poland, German occupation meant the obliteration of the central state, the mass murder of political elites, and the Holocaust of the Jews. This important book reveals how German power altered local societies in the countryside, mastering institutions and changing individual incentives so that some Polish policemen and some Polish peasants took part in the murder of Jews. Grabowski is alert to the difficulty of rescue and dedicates his book to the Polish rescuers. But his ultimate concern is the way people are brought over time to do great evil. This short book is perhaps the most important in the recent Polish debates about Polish responsibility for the Holocaust. But it is also an inquiry into human behavior in dark times from which all can learn.