Life in the Ghettos During the Holocaust

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Eric J. Sterling
Syracuse University Press, Jul 8, 2005 - History - 398 pages
Unlike many Holocaust books, which deal primarily with the concentration camps, this book focuses on Jewish life before Jews lost their autonomy and fell totally under Nazi power. These essays concern various aspects of Jewish daily life and governance, such as the Judenrat, the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, religious life, housing, death, smuggling, art, and the struggle for survival while under siege by the Nazi regime. Written by survivors of the ghettos throughout Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary, this collection contains historical and cultural articles by prominent scholars, an essay on Holocaust theatre, and an article on teaching the Holocaust to students.
 

Contents

My Ancestral Home
1
GhettoConcentration Camp
26
Autobiographical Notes
35
Historical Position of the Hungarian Jewry
43
Eyewitness to the Holocaust
66
Survivor Accounts from the Warsaw Łódź
84
Nazi Ghettoization Practices
120
Death and Ghetto Death
160
Art and Imagery of the GhettoDuring and After
191
The Jewish Resistance Movements in the Ghettos
220
The Ghetto Theater in Vilna
258
A Teaching Strategy
274
Notes
293
Bibliography
319
Index
337
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