The Jews of Staszów, 1939-1943 - history through a diarist's eyes

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Title The Jews of Staszów, 1939-1943 - history through a diarist's eyes : a comparative discussion.
Host Item Yad Vashem Studies 43,1 (2015) 133-169
Description Based on a "diary" compiled after the war by the survivor Joseph Goldstein from Staszów, Poland, as well as on testimonies and memoirs left by other witnesses, reconstructs the history of Nazi persecution and murder of Jews in this town, as well as, briefly, in some other towns of the vicinity (Chmielnik, Stopnica, Pinczów, etc.). Ca. 4,800 Jews lived in Staszów prior to World War II
only 100 of them survived. Describes the Nazis' measures against the Jews, including forced labor, ghettoization (a ghetto was established in June-July 1942), deportations of Jews to death camps, and mass murders on the spot. Compares the liquidation of the Staszów ghetto in November 1942 to that of the Chmielnik ghetto in the previous month. The local non-Jewish population of the vicinity, from common peasants to members of the indigenous administration, took part in the persecution and murder of Jews: first in robbing them, then in the betrayal of Jews to the Germans, and later in the killing of those who fled to nearby forests. (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
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עדות מן התופת : זכרונות מימי המלחמה 1939 - 1945 / יעקב בוכמן ; מיידיש - י' בן-יהושע ; עיצוב העטיפה ואיורים -אדם מושקא.

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