Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
2015
Titel der Quelle:
Yad Vashem Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
43,1 (2015) 133-169
Schlagwort(e):
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Personal narratives
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Staszów (Województwo Świętokrzyskie, Poland)
Kurzfassung:
Based on a "diary" compiled after the war by the survivor Joseph Goldstein from Staszów, Poland, as well as on testimonies and memoirs left by other witnesses, reconstructs the history of Nazi persecution and murder of Jews in this town, as well as, briefly, in some other towns of the vicinity (Chmielnik, Stopnica, Pinczów, etc.). Ca. 4,800 Jews lived in Staszów prior to World War II; only 100 of them survived. Describes the Nazis' measures against the Jews, including forced labor, ghettoization (a ghetto was established in June-July 1942), deportations of Jews to death camps, and mass murders on the spot. Compares the liquidation of the Staszów ghetto in November 1942 to that of the Chmielnik ghetto in the previous month. The local non-Jewish population of the vicinity, from common peasants to members of the indigenous administration, took part in the persecution and murder of Jews: first in robbing them, then in the betrayal of Jews to the Germans, and later in the killing of those who fled to nearby forests.
Anmerkung:
In English and Hebrew.
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