Hunt for the Jews: Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied PolandJan Grabowski
“The trouble was not lack of friends, but the multitude of enemies,” wrote a Holocaust survivor in 2013. Although he personally had been rescued by Poles, he added bitterly that “the majority of the Polish population assisted the Germans in their efforts to annihilate the Jews” (p. 4). A schoolteach...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2018
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 32, Issue: 2, Pages: 291-293 |
| Review of: | Hunt for the Jews (Bloomington, Ind. [u.a.] : Indiana Univ. Press, 2013) (Hagen, William W.)
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| Summary: | “The trouble was not lack of friends, but the multitude of enemies,” wrote a Holocaust survivor in 2013. Although he personally had been rescued by Poles, he added bitterly that “the majority of the Polish population assisted the Germans in their efforts to annihilate the Jews” (p. 4). A schoolteacher’s 1942 diary recorded a hunt for Jews who had escaped deportation to the death-camps: in the “orgy of murders,” alongside Germans and their “Ukrainian and Latvian helpers,” “our dear policemen”—Nazi-subservient blue-uniformed Poles—and “normal Poles, accidental volunteers, took part,” in hastily formed “citizens’ militias.” The villagers bought scythes at the hardware store for what they called the “Jew hunt.” Asked “how much do they pay you for each captured Jew,” embarrassed silence ensued. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcy027 |