Language:
German
Year of publication:
1989
Titel der Quelle:
Leo Baeck Institute Year Book
Angaben zur Quelle:
34 (1989) 247-266
Keywords:
Jewish ghettos
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
An expanded version of a paper delivered at the Ninth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, 1986. Deals with expulsions and deportations of ca. 50,000 Jews from Germany, Austria, and the Protectorate, between 1938-43, to towns and ghettos in the East, and the relations or lack of them between the German-speaking Jews and East European Jews. Relates the cases of the Jews in Zbaszyn (1938), the Jews from Stettin deported to the Lublin area (1940), and German Jews in the ghettos of Warsaw, Lodz, Riga, and Minsk. In the last three the German Jews were kept apart from the local Jews, in separate compounds. The co-existence of Eastern and Western Jews in these places differed widely, depending on incidental factors, on personal initiatives, or on the viciousness of the German authorities. In general, the earlier deportees to Poland met with a friendly reception. As conditions became harsher, feelings of mutual mistrust, envy, anger, resentment, and outright hostility were expressed. The German Jews believed they were in a superior position vis-a-vis the Nazis and avoided being identified with the local Jews. The Nazis used these hostilities to manipulate the Jews.
Note:
Appeared in German in his "Hoffnung und Untergang" (1998).
DOI:
10.1093/leobaeck/34.1.247
URL:
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