TY  - BOOK
AU  - Joanna Tokarska-Bakir
PY  - 2021
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783631854211
TI  - Jewish Fugitives in the Polish Countryside, 1939–1945
T2  - Beyond the German Holocaust Project
DO  - 10.3726/b18433
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1114405
N2  - Focused on the struggle to survive by the Jewish Poles stranded in the Polish countryside during the Holocaust, case studies collected in this volume are based on research carried out at Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance. Where possible, they are also complemented by Jewish survivors’ testimonies dispersed throughout the world. There are at least two leitmotifs recurring throughout all texts: What are the social correlates of the anti-Jewish violence undertaken by Polish neighbours without German initiative and even knowledge? Are there certain types of social relationships more subject or prone to this kind of violence? What was the role of peasantry, social elites, and Catholic church in inciting and perpetrating it? Was this violence influenced by the Holocaust, or was it a separate form of genocidal violence?
KW  - the Holocaust, Polish countryside, genocidal violence, postwar pogroms, the Holocaust facilitators, non-German participation in the Holocaust
LA  - English
ER  -