Language:
English
Year of publication:
2005
Titel der Quelle:
Holocaust Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
11,1 (2005) 55-74
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews
;
Jews
;
Jewish ghettos
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Criticizes the concept of the "bystander" in the Holocaust, which is now generally accepted in historiography and has the connotation of inaction and indifference. "Bystanders" include several categories of people, from those who indirectly participated in the Holocaust or benefited from it to those who helped the victims. Examines the processes of ghettoization in Szeged and Budapest in 1944, where many Hungarian "bystanders" were active agents and in fact defined the final shape of the ghettoization, because the separation of Jews from non-Jews caused inconvenience and/or affected their interests. In Szeged, non-Jews forced authorities to forsake the idea of creating one big ghetto in the city center and convinced them to establish two smaller ghettos instead. In Budapest, non-Jews in mid-1944 took a stand against the establishment of a ghetto, and the authorities instead designated ca. 2,000 houses in the city as "Jewish houses".
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