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Hitler's Ghettos - Voices from a Beleaguered Society 1939-1944 (Paperback, Revised)
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Hitler's Ghettos - Voices from a Beleaguered Society 1939-1944 (Paperback, Revised)
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Hundreds of ghettos were created throughout eastern Europe by the
Germans and their allies during World War II. Some were large - the
one in Warsaw held almost half a million people in 1942 - others
were very small. All had the purpose of holding the Jews separate
from the rest of the population, almost invariably in
extraordinarily deprived, squalid and crowded conditions. They
became antechambers to the death camps but that purpose was not
clear to most of their inhabitants. These cities within cities
merit consideration then, not just as staging posts in the
extermination of European Jewry, but as communities in their own
right, with their own dynamics, in which elements of traditional
pre-war Jewish society continued to exist. There have been some
studies of the largest ghettos - Warsaw and Lodz - and a few
accounts of some of the smaller ones; but very little examination
of the ghettos as a whole. This history draws heavily on the
testmonies of those who suffered in them, making use of a wide
range of diaries and memoirs (and exploring the problems inherent
in such sources). Other documentary sources - particularly German -
are also used, but the intention is to look at the gh
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