Language:
Polish
Year of publication:
2005
Titel der Quelle:
Kwartalnik Historii Żydów
Angaben zur Quelle:
215 (2005) 386-402
Keywords:
Merin, Mojżesz
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Jewish councils
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
World War, 1939-1945 Conscript labor
Abstract:
Describes activities of the Judenrat which organized the Jewish communities of the Dąbrowa Górnicza area and part of Upper Silesia. These areas consisted of 34 communities, with ca. 96,000 Jewish inhabitants. Its chairman was Moshe Merin, who believed that the Jewish population could be saved by working for the benefit of the Germans. Merin told the Jews to carry out German orders and discouraged them from contacting "Aryans" or conspiring against the Nazis. States that the years 1940-41 were successful ones for Merin, but his position weakened in summer 1942, after deportations began and the ghettos of Będzin and Sosnowiec were established. In June 1943 the Judenrat leaders were deported to Auschwitz; the ghettos were liquidated through 1943. Pp. 394-402 present a document reporting the activities of the Judenrat up to December 1941.
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