The first to be destroyed : the Jewish community of Kleczew and the beginning of the final solution / Anetta Głowacka-Penczyńska, Tomasz Kawski, Witold Mędykowski ; edited by Tuvia Horev ; book design by Ivan Grave.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Głowacka-Penczyńska, Anetta, author.

Kawski, Tomasz, 1969- author.

Mędykowski, Witold, author.

Contributor:

Horev, Tuvia, editor.

Grave, Ivan Platonovich, 1874-1960, book designer.

Knowledge Unlatched, Funder.

Series:

Judaism and Jewish life.

Judaism and Jewish Life

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Poland--Jedwabne--History.

Jews.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Jedwabne.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Kleczew (Poland)--Ethnic relations.

Kleczew (Poland).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (450 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boston, [Massachusetts] : Academic Studies Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Jewish community of the city of Kleczew came into existence in the sixteenth century. It remained large and strong throughout the next four hundred years, and in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it constituted 40-60% of the total population. The German army entered Kleczew on September 15, 1939, shortly after the outbreak of World War II. The communities of Kleczew and the vicinity were among the first Jewish collectives in Europe to be totally destroyed. The events presented in this book reveal that the organization of deportations and the methods of mass murder conducted in this district, by Kommando Lange, served as a model that would be applied later in the death camps during the mass extermination of Polish and European Jewry. If so, it was in the woods near Kleczew that the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" began.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

List of Photographs

List of Tables

List of Maps

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction

PART One. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF KLECZEW

Chapter 1. The Old Polish Period (Fifteenth-Eighteenth Centuries)

Chapter 2. The Partition and Foreign Occupation Period in Poland (Late Eighteenth-Early Twentieth Centuries)

Chapter 3. Interwar Kleczew (1918-1939)

PART Two. "IN THE EYE OF THE STORM": JEWS IN OCCUPIED KLECZEW AND REICHSGAU WARTHELAND

Chapter 4. The First Occupation Years: "Resettlement" and Deportation

Chapter 5. Forced Labor

PART Three. FIRST TO BE DESTROYED: THE BEGINNING OF ORGANIZED MASS EXTERMINATION

Chapter 6. "Piloting" the Organized Mass Extermination of Jews

Chapter 7. Establishment and Operation of the First Extermination Camp

PART Four. EPILOGUE: THE POSTWAR PERIOD

Chapter 8. Kleczew after the War

ANNEXES

Annex 1: Documents, Letters, and Testimonies

Annex 2: Stories of Descendants and Survivors of the Jewish Community of Kleczew

Annex 3: Tables

List of Abbreviations

Archival Sources

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781618112859

1618112856

OCLC:

1135587308

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access