BOOK

Jewish childhood in Kraków : a microhistory of the Holocaust

Sliwa, Joanna, author

2021

Overview

\"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\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• 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. / Krakow (Poland) Ethnic relations 20th century.
• ISBN: 9781978822931, 9781978822948

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DS134.6 .S58 2021	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE