Language:
English
Year of publication:
2004
Titel der Quelle:
Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
18,1 (2004) 1-26
Keywords:
Jews
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Jews
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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World War, 1939-1945 Conscript labor
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Jewish ghettos
Abstract:
Outlines the history of Transnistria (a name given by Antonescu to the region of Ukraine between the Dnestr and the Bug), which was occupied by Romania in June 1941, and the fate of the Jews there, both those deported by the Antonescu regime and the indigenous Jews. Describes massacres and ghettoization, as well as aid rendered by the Jewish leadership in the Regat (Old Romania). Focuses on the town of Golta, which was ruled by the Romanian prefect Modest Isopescu. Two ghettos and a labor camp were established there, with a total of ca. 500 Jews in early 1943. Presents excerpts from Isopescu's official correspondence, aiming to show that the Romanian authorities were concerned first and foremost with utilizing Jewish labor and not with extermination. The Jews feared the Germans retreating from the East much more than they did the Romanians; in summer 1943 many Jews fled from the ghettos and camps. States that most of the Jews who arrived at the Golta ghettos in late spring 1942 survived the ordeal, which attests to the fact that the Romanians treated the Jews more humanely than did the Germans.
Note:
Another version appeared as "Aspects of the ghetto experience in eastern Transnistria; the ghettos and labor camp in the town of Golta" in "Ghettos 1939-1945" (2005) 15-66.
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A German version appeared as "Lebensbedingungen in den Ghettos und Arbeitslagern in Transnistrien 1942-1944: der Fall Golta" in "Holocaust an der Peripherie" (2009) 45-70.
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Appeared in Romanian as "Condiţiile de viaţă în ghetourile şi lagărele de muncă din Transnistria în anii 1942-1944 : cazul Golta" in "Holocaustul la periferie" (2010) 66-107.
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