Jewish Childhood In Kraków

Author : Joanna Sliwa
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781978822955

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Jewish Childhood in Kraków by Joanna Sliwa Pdf

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.

Author : Joanna B. Michlic
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN : NWU:35556039109368

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Jewish Children in Nazi-occupied Poland by Joanna B. Michlic Pdf

Through an in-depth textual analysis of eyewitness testimonies, the author reconstructs various categories of child survivors and the ways in which they coped with social relations on the Aryan side in Nazi-occupied Poland, using concepts of "performance" pioneered by Goffman. These testimonies bring a new dimension to issues of betrayal and hostility as well as of sacrifice and dedication, creating a broader view of historical representation through pictures of individuals.

Author : Mayer Kirshenblatt,Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-24
Category : Art
ISBN : IND:30000116491949

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They Called Me Mayer July by Mayer Kirshenblatt,Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Pdf

My town - My family - My youth - My future.

Author : Miriam Akavia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114415552

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My Own Vineyard by Miriam Akavia Pdf

This rich novel, in the best tradition of family sagas, tells the story of three generations of a Jewish family in Krakow from the beginning of the twentieth century to the eve of the German occupation of Poland in September 1939. The story of this large, middle-class Jewish family is also the story of a deeply-rooted Jewish community and its considerable cultural and material achievements, until disaster struck and it was wiped off the face of the earth. At the beginning of the century, Krakow was under Austrian rule. The mother of the family died, leaving a husband and eight children. A different destiny awaited each of the them, each story reflecting the options which faced Polish Jews at that time. With the outbreak of the First World War, the eldest son joined the army and was sent to the Italian front. He returned a broken man, and died shortly afterwards. The second son married happily, became a successful lumber merchant and a paterfamilias. He veered between Jewish and European culture and regarded Poland as his homeland. One of the sisters, a natural rebel, fell in love with a Polish non-Jew. When he abandoned her, she became a Zionist and immigrated to Eretz Israel. Her older sister was happily married to an old-style religious Jew. Another sister married an assimilated Jew and was uncertain as to her national identity, while the fourth fell in love with a Communist. Their prosperous brother had three children - two daughters and a son - who enjoyed life in independent Poland between the wars. When the Germans invaded Poland, the family missed the last train out and with it the chance to be saved. Most of the family perished in the Holocaust.

Author : R. M. Romero
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781524715410

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The Dollmaker of Krakow by R. M. Romero Pdf

In the vein of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and Number the Stars, this fusion of fairy tales, folklore, and World War II history eloquently illustrates the power of love and the inherent will to survive even in the darkest of times. In the land of dolls, there is magic. In the land of humans, there is war. Everywhere there is pain. But together there is hope. Karolina is a living doll whose king and queen have been overthrown. But when a strange wind spirits her away from the Land of the Dolls, she finds herself in Kraków, Poland, in the company of the Dollmaker, a man with an unusual power and a marked past. The Dollmaker has learned to keep to himself, but Karolina’s courageous and compassionate manner lead him to smile and to even befriend a violin-playing father and his daughter—that is, once the Dollmaker gets over the shock of realizing a doll is speaking to him. But their newfound happiness is dashed when Nazi soldiers descend upon Poland. Karolina and the Dollmaker quickly realize that their Jewish friends are in grave danger, and they are determined to help save them, no matter what the risks.

Author : Emunah Nachmany-Gafny,אמונה ‏נחמני גפני
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131236569

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Dividing Hearts by Emunah Nachmany-Gafny,אמונה ‏נחמני גפני Pdf

Personal stories of Polish rescuers and Jewish children include tragedies with no winners. Research on issues involved in the search for hidden Jewish children in the postwar period in Poland, raises questions such as: Why so many organizations? How did they operate? How did the Polish courts deal with the issue? What was the stance of the Church? How did the children react to the transition? Many moving personal stories of the children are interwoven in this book.

Author : George J. Alexander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0972456562

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Generations by George J. Alexander Pdf

GENERATIONS starts with the author's overview of Polish/Jewish interactions over a thousand years from the times of Ibrahim ibn Yakub, a Jewish traveler-merchant-diplomat from Arab Spain, who in 965 A.D. was the first to mention a town called Kracko and continuing all the way to the Holocaust. It then proceeds from pre-historic legends to historic details about Krakovian Jewish courtiers serving the King Casimir the Great in 1350 and the Polish Renaissance Queens Elizabeth of Bohemia and Bona Sforza around 1500, all at the royal court in Krakw. The major part of the book deals with the history of Krakw Jewry as illuminated by the specific lives and genealogy of the author's Aleksandrowicz forebears and their friends and neighbors. It ends with the author's experiences as a child in Krakw (1925-1943) and his survival in the Ghetto, the concentration camps in Plaszw, Mauthausen, Melk and Ebensee. The book is the result of 11 years of research. It contains a number of copies of original historic family documents written in archaic Polish, which the author transcribed and translated into English, scores of other documents and photographs, a bibliography and an index.

Author : Helene J. Sinnreich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009100083

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The Atrocity of Hunger by Helene J. Sinnreich Pdf

During World War II, the Germans put the Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland into ghettos which restricted their movement and, most crucially for their survival, access to food. The Germans saw the Jews as 'useless eaters,' and denied them sufficient food for survival. The hunger which resulted from this intentional starvation impacted every aspect of Jewish life inside the ghettos. This book focuses on the Jews in the Łódź, Warsaw, and Kraków ghettos as they struggled to survive the deadly Nazi ghetto and, in particular, the genocidal famine conditions. Jews had no control over Nazi food policy but they attempted to survive the deadly conditions of Nazi ghettoization through a range of coping mechanisms and survival strategies. In this book, Helene Sinnreich explores their story, drawing from diaries and first-hand accounts of the victims and survivors. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Author : Henryk Grynberg
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0810113546

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Children of Zion by Henryk Grynberg Pdf

Award-winning writer Henryk Grynberg takes an extraordinary collection of interviews with young Polish war orphans conducted in Palestine in 1943 about their experiences and gives their stories "one voice". The cumulative effect of so many different voices discussing similar horrors is shocking and makes this book unlike any other work on the Holocaust.

Author : Jonathan Huener,Andrea Löw
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781805392453

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Poland under German Occupation, 1939-1945 by Jonathan Huener,Andrea Löw Pdf

As a unique and innovative addition to the scholarship on Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, and modern Polish history, this volume provides fresh analysis on the Nazi occupation of Poland. Through new questions and engaging untapped sources the leading historians who have contributed to this volume provide original scholarship to steer debates and expand the historiography surrounding Nazi racial and occupation policies, Polish and Jewish responses to them, persecution, police terror, resistance, and complicity.

Author : Jacob Apenszlak,Jacob Kenner,Isaac Lewin,Izak Lewkin,Majżesz Polakiewicz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN : WISC:89089182612

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The Black Book of Polish Jewry by Jacob Apenszlak,Jacob Kenner,Isaac Lewin,Izak Lewkin,Majżesz Polakiewicz Pdf

Author : Sławomir Jacek Żurek
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9798887192826

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Polish Jewish Re-Remembering by Sławomir Jacek Żurek Pdf

The title of this monograph, ‘Polish-Jewish Re-Remembering’, refers to the post-1989, thirty-year-long process of reviving attention to Polish-Jewish relations in historical, cultural, and literary studies, including the impact of Jews on the development of Polish culture, their presence in Polish social life, and the relationships between Jews and non-Jews in Poland. The book consists of four parts: the first focuses on Polish, Jewish and Polish-Jewish Literature (dealing mainly with pre-1939 literary works); the second, on the post-war literary output of the Polish-Jewish writer Arnold Słucki (1920–1972); the third, on Polish-Israeli literary images in the works of writers who were active in Israel (1948–2018); and the fourth, on recent (after 2000) Polish Holocaust literature.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8375772283

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We Were, We Are, We Will be by Anonim Pdf

Author : נחום ‏בוגנר,Nahum Bogner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131236585

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At the Mercy of Strangers by נחום ‏בוגנר,Nahum Bogner Pdf

[This book] "by Dr. Nahum Bogner is the result of his unique and pathfinding research relating to the rescue of children who lived and survived under an assumed identity in Poland among various strands of the Christian population--in towns, in villages and in vonvents--as well as the efforts made by various bodies after the war to locate the children. At the heart of this carefully documented drama is the author's discussion of the fate of the child survivors as he explores their lives in alien Christian surroundings and their tortuous journey back to the Jewish fold."--From page [4] of cover.

Author : Jan M. Małecki
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Jews
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019121297

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World before a catastrophe by Jan M. Małecki Pdf