Language:
German
Year of publication:
2000
Titel der Quelle:
Wiener Jahrbuch für Jüdische Geschichte, Kultur und Museumswesen
Angaben zur Quelle:
5 (2000-2001) 107-114
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews
;
Jewish ghettos
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Attempts to explain why mortality among the "Western" (German, Austrian, and Czech) Jews deported to the Łódź ghetto in fall 1941 was almost twice as high as among Polish Jews; and why, in May 1942, twice as many of them were transported to Chełmno than were Polish Jews during the whole existence of the ghetto up to then: by the end of May only 6,300 of the original 20,000 were left. Among the causes are the wholly inadequate physical conditions of the housing allotted to them, and their significantly higher age, making them unfit for the hard labor demanded in the ghetto. But Oskar Singer, a Prague Jew employed in the ghetto archives, author of a 15-chapter treatise "On the Problem of East and West", stated that the main reason for the failure of the "Western" Jews to integrate in ghetto society was mutual stereotypes and prejudices. Argues that Singer confines his view to the boundaries of the ghetto, ignoring the German officials who had created it and who were the real arbiters of life and death.
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