Hunt for the Jews : betrayal and murder in German-occupied Poland / Jan Grabowski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grabowski, Jan, 1962- author.

Standardized Title:

Judenjagd. English

Language:

English

Polish

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Dąbrowa Tarnowska (Powiat).

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Jews--Poland--Dąbrowa Tarnowska (Powiat)--History--20th century.

Jews.

History.

Dąbrowa Tarnowska (Poland : Powiat)--History.

Dąbrowa Tarnowska (Poland : Powiat).

Poland--Dąbrowa Tarnowska (Powiat).

Physical Description:

xiv, 303 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2013]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Dąbrowa Tarnowska

Jews and Poles in Dąbrowa Tarnowska before 1939

First years of occupation

The destruction of Dąbrowa Tarnowska

Judenjagd: hunt for the Jews

Rural society and the Jews in hiding

In the Dulcza forest

The German police

The Polish "blue" police

The Baudienst

The last months of war

Different kinds of help

The Righteous.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780253010742

0253010748

9780253010872

025301087X

OCLC:

816563430