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).
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Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780253010872
Publisert
2013
Utgiver
Independent Publishers Group (Chicago Review Press)
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
Antall sider
320
Forfatter