- Summary
- "The Nazi persecution and murder of the Jews of Europe led to the atomization of the social relationships of the victims. Families were ripped apart. Entire communities were ghettoized and isolated from the outside world. The forced removal of the Jews from the midst of the non-Jewish population facilitated the crimes committed against them, significantly limited the assistance they could rely on, and restricted the number of witnesses to their persecution and murder. However, despite the devastation, disruption, and loss brought by the Holocaust, prewar patterns and lationships continued to shape decisions and actions by Jews and non-Jews both during and after the war. Even in extremis, they often relied on established networks of support that had been forged in very different circumstances. Jewish victims as well as bystanders and perpetrators relied on the already familiar cohort of relatives, neighbors, peers, and colleagues to support and assist them during this time. Just as these networks brought people with various backgrounds together, Entanglements of War compiles a broad range of interdisciplinary perspectives to reveal invaluable findings about the relationships, choices, and actions that shaped these complex connections, and their impact on Jewish lives during the Holocaust and its immediate aftermath"--back cover.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Jerusalem : Yad Vashem, The International Institute for Holocaust Research, The Center for Research on the Holocaust in Poland, [2022]
©2022
- Locale
- Europe, Eastern
- Contents
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Introduction: conceptualizing networks and the Holocaust / Natalia Aleksiun and Eliyana R. Adler
Social networks: Jewish refugees, local Jews, and Soviet Jewish functionaries in Soviet-annexed Western Belorussia, 1939-1941 / Yanina Karpenkina
Family networks: a means of survival in ghettos in Nazi-occupied Poland / Dalia Ofer
Maintaining family networks via post during the Holocaust / Eliyana R. Adler
Rescue and smuggling networks in the Polish-Slovak borderland ring the Holocaust / Karolina Panz
Institutional networks: Jewish social self-help as an example of cooperation of Jewish activists across ghetto boundaries / Aleksandra Bańkowska
Jewish medical networks in the ghettos during the Holocaust / Miriam Offer
Jewish medical networks as a rescue strategy in Nazi-occupied Poland / Natalia Aleksiun
Entangled networks: an ordinary police informer in the Polish countryside during the Holocaust / Lukase Krzyeanowski
Underground networks: news networks in the Lodz Ghetto / Michal Unger
Individual help networks for Jews in hiding: two case studies / Barbara Engelking
From Krakow to Bochnia and Piwniczna: Jews escaping from the generalgouvernement across the Slovak border, 1939-1944 / Dagmara Swaltek-Niewiiska
Local Polish underground networks and Jews in hiding: a case study of Pińczów and Miechów / Dariusz Libionka
Postwar networks and memory of networks: the Halachic discourse crosses borders: a network of Rabbinical courts for Holocaust agunot / Esther Farbstein
Social networks in Holocaust testimony: building theory from the source with Lithuanian Jewish witnesses / Hannah Pollin-Galay.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Adler, Eliyana R., editor.
Aleksiun, Natalia, 1971- editor.
Yad ṿa-shem, rashut ha-zikaron la-Shoʼah ṿela-gevurah, issuing body.
International Institute for Holocaust Research, issuing body.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: conceptualizing networks and the Holocaust / Natalia Aleksiun and Eliyana R. Adler -- Social networks: Jewish refugees, local Jews, and Soviet Jewish functionaries in Soviet-annexed Western Belorussia, 1939-1941 / Yanina Karpenkina -- Family networks: a means of survival in ghettos in Nazi-occupied Poland / Dalia Ofer -- Maintaining family networks via post during the Holocaust / Eliyana R. Adler -- Rescue and smuggling networks in the Polish-Slovak borderland ring the Holocaust / Karolina Panz -- Institutional networks: Jewish social self-help as an example of cooperation of Jewish activists across ghetto boundaries / Aleksandra Bańkowska -- Jewish medical networks in the ghettos during the Holocaust / Miriam Offer -- Jewish medical networks as a rescue strategy in Nazi-occupied Poland / Natalia Aleksiun -- Entangled networks: an ordinary police informer in the Polish countryside during the Holocaust / Lukase Krzyeanowski -- Underground networks: news networks in the Lodz Ghetto / Michal Unger -- Individual help networks for Jews in hiding: two case studies / Barbara Engelking -- From Krakow to Bochnia and Piwniczna: Jews escaping from the generalgouvernement across the Slovak border, 1939-1944 / Dagmara Swaltek-Niewiiska -- Local Polish underground networks and Jews in hiding: a case study of Pińczów and Miechów / Dariusz Libionka -- Postwar networks and memory of networks: the Halachic discourse crosses borders: a network of Rabbinical courts for Holocaust agunot / Esther Farbstein -- Social networks in Holocaust testimony: building theory from the source with Lithuanian Jewish witnesses / Hannah Pollin-Galay.
