Language:
שפה נוכחית
Sign in with Google
Sign in with Facebook
| Title |
Rural society and the Jews in hiding : elders, night watches, firefighters, hostages and manhunts. |
|---|---|
| Host Item |
Yad Vashem Studies 40,1 (2012) 49-74 |
| Description |
The liquidation of the ghettos in Poland, started by the Nazis in summer 1942, set in motion also the "Judenjagd", the manhunt for those who fled the doomed ghettos before or during the roundups and found shelter in the rural vicinity. Taking the wartime Dąbrowa Tarnowska county (east of Kraków) as a case study, examines the organizational framework set up by the occupiers in the Polish villages, with the aim that local residents would do the dirty work for the Germans, searching for Jewish refugees in the villages and nearby forests. This framework included local members of the Polish "blue police" the "night watches" and "section leaders", recruited from local peasants village elders and their deputies firefighters couriers hostages held responsible for the success of the manhunt and, in some places, ethnic German formations. This type of organization safeguarded the involvement of large masses of peasants in the "Judenjagd". Although the German system was buttressed by brutal reprisals against Poles who sabotagednthe manhunt (including executions of hostages and village elders), the deadly efficiency of this system depended first and foremost on the willingness and zeal of the participants, which cannot be explained by fear of reprisal alone or even by greed. Peasants increasingly failed to regard the Jews as human beings. Manhunts for Jews were more efficient than those for other "enemies of the Reich", e.g. Poles evading the draft for forced labor in Germany. The peasants exposed much brutality during the "Judenjagd". (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) In English and Hebrew. |
| Language |
English |
| Credits |
באדיבות יש ושם – רשות הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה Courtesy of Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center |
| National Library system number |
990005220620705171 |
| Links |
Rosetta Digital Object |
When using this material, please acknowledge the source of the material as follows:
באדיבות יש ושם – רשות הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה Courtesy of Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
תנאי השימוש:
For non-commercial use
You may copy and use the item for non-commercial purposes only.
You must credit the creator(s) with every use of the item.
It is prohibited to distort or change the work in any way that will damage the integrity of or defame the creator.
It is not necessary to contact the National Library for permission to use the item for non-commercial purposes.
Commercial use is conditional on permission from the copyright owner of the item and/or the owner of the collection. No additional permission from the National Library is required.
You may contact the National Library for copyright owner/collection owner contact information by Inquiry for Copyright form.
Additional information:
The item is subject to copyright and/or contractual terms of use.
If you believe that there is an error in the information above, or in case of any concern of copyright infringement in connection with this item, contact us using the Inquiry for Copyright form.
MARC RECORDS
Have more information? Found a mistake?
