Title Jewish childhood in Kraków : a microhistory of the Holocaust / Joanna Sliwa

Published New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource Contents 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 Summary 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 Analysis jew, jewish, judaism, antisemite, anti-semite, antisemitic, anti-semitic, holocaust, yiddish, cultural identity, identity, religion, ethnicity, zionist, zionism, israel, immigration, community, culture, jewish studies, wartime, German army, Germany, Jewish community, Poland, children, childhood, youth, Krakow, diaspora, child, concentration camp, survival, human rights, Childhood studies, humanitarian crisis, city life, adolescence, ghetto, jewish ghettos Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 26, 2021) Subject Jewish children -- Poland -- Kraków -- History -- 20th century World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Poland -- Kraków Children and war -- Poland -- Kraków -- History -- 20th century Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Kraków Jews -- Poland -- Kraków -- History -- 20th century Jewish ghettos -- Poland -- Kraków -- History -- 20th century HISTORY -- General. HISTORY / General Children Children and war Ethnic relations Jewish children Jewish ghettos Jews SUBJECT Kraków (Poland) -- Ethnic relations -- 20th century Subject Poland -- Kraków Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781978822955 1978822952 9781978822979 1978822979

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