Jewish childhood in Kraków: a microhistory of the Holocaust

Chapter 1: Navigating shifts in German-occupied Kraków -- Chapter 2: Adapting to life inside the ghetto -- Chapter 3: Clandestine activities by and on behalf of children -- Chapter 4: Child welfare: continuity and change -- Chapter 5: Concealed presence in the camp -- Chapter 6: Survival through hid...

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Main Author: Sliwa, Joanna (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: New Brunswick Rutgers University Press [2021]
In:Year: 2021
Reviews:[Rezension von: Sliwa, Joanna, Jewish childhood in Kraków : a microhistory of the Holocaust] (2023) (Martin, Sean, 1968 -)
Edition:First edition
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Jews / Ghetto / Kraków / Child / World War
Further subjects:B Jews (Poland) (Kraków) History 20th century
B Children and war (Poland) (Kraków) History 20th century
B Jewish ghettos (Poland) (Kraków) History 20th century
B Krakow (Poland) Ethnic relations 20th century
B World War, 1939-1945 Children (Poland) (Kraków)
B Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) (Poland) (Kraków)
B Jewish Children (Poland) (Kraków) History 20th century
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Summary:Chapter 1: Navigating shifts in German-occupied Kraków -- Chapter 2: Adapting to life inside the ghetto -- Chapter 3: Clandestine activities by and on behalf of children -- Chapter 4: Child welfare: continuity and change -- Chapter 5: Concealed presence in the camp -- Chapter 6: Survival through hiding and flight.
"Jewish Childhood in Kraków is the first history to tell the wartime history of Kraków through the lens of Jewish children's experiences. Historian Joanna Sliwa examines what children under 14 years old experienced when the second World War broke out. How did they cope? What roles did they take on? In this story, children assume center stage as historical actors whose recollections and experiences deserve to be told, analyzed, and treated seriously. Sliwa scours archives on three continents to tell their story, gleaning evidence from the records of the German army, Polish neighbors, Jewish community and family, and the children themselves. It is through the children and their recollections that this book explores the events and processes that framed the Holocaust in German-occupied Poland in general, 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. It illuminates the complex relations between Jews and non-Jews in response to the Holocaust in Kraków and in German-occupied Poland more broadly. And it offers a window onto human relations and ethnic tensions in times of rampant violence. Ultimately, Jewish Childhood in Kraków is an effort both to understand the past and to reflect on the position and responses of young people during humanitarian crises"--
Item Description:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 181-196. - Register
ISBN:1978822936