ISBN:
9781978822979
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (242 p)
Edition:
[Online-Ausgabe]
Year of publication:
2021
Keywords:
Children and war History 20th century
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jewish children History 20th century
;
Jewish ghettos History 20th century
;
Jews History 20th century
;
World War, 1939-1945 Children
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jewish ghettos History 20th century
;
Children and war History 20th century
;
Jews History 20th century
;
Jewish children History 20th century
;
World War, 1939-1945 Children
;
HISTORY / General
Abstract:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Terminology -- Introduction -- 1. Navigating Shifts in the City -- 2. Adapting to Life inside the Ghetto -- 3. Clandestine Activities -- 4. Child Welfare -- 5. Concealed Presence in the Camp -- 6. Survival through Hiding and Flight -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations Used in Notes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
Abstract:
Winner of the 2020 Ernst Fraenkel Prize from the Wiener Holocaust Library Jewish Childhood in Kraków is the first book to tell the history of Kraków in the second World War through the lens of Jewish children’s experiences. Here, children assume center stage as historical actors whose recollections and experiences deserve to be told, analyzed, and treated seriously. Sliwa scours archives to tell their story, gleaning evidence from the records of the German authorities, Polish neighbors, Jewish community and family, and the children themselves to explore the Holocaust in German-occupied Poland and in Kraków in particular. A microhistory of a place, a people, and daily life, this book plumbs the decisions and behaviors of ordinary people in extraordinary times. Offering a window onto human relations and ethnic tensions in times of rampant violence, Jewish Childhood in Kraków is an effort both to understand the past and to reflect on the position of young people during humanitarian crises
Note:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
,
In English
DOI:
10.36019/9781978822979
