The Clandestine History of the Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police By Anonymous Members of the Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police
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Indiana University Press (IPS)
Fr. 18.90
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Erscheinungsdatum
01.11.2018
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Samuel SchalkowskyVerlag
Indiana University PressSeitenzahl
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Samuel Schalkowsky
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Englisch
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9780253012975
"Remarkable... provides a graphic and unparalleled description of the conditions under which the Jews of Kaunas tried to live and survive." -
The Forward
As a force that had to serve two masters, both the Jewish population of the Kovno ghetto in Lithuania and its German occupiers, the Kovno Jewish ghetto police walked a fine line between helping Jews survive and meeting Nazi orders. In 1942 and 1943 some of its members secretly composed this history and buried it in tin boxes. This book details the creation and organization of the ghetto, the violent German attacks on the population in the summer of 1941, the periodic selections of Jews to be deported and killed, the labor required of the surviving Jewish population, and the efforts of the police to provide a semblance of stability.
A substantial introduction by distinguished historian Samuel D. Kassow places this powerful work within the context of the history of the Kovno Jewish community and its experience and fate at the hands of the Nazis.
"No book I've read in recent time about the Holocaust has so moved me, evoking the utter helplessness of the Jew, the plight of the Jewish policeand the cunning cruelty of the German. This is a gripping story, page by page, and it reminds us again that there but for the grace of God go we all." -Marvin Kalb, Senior Advisor to the Pulitzer Center and Edward R. Murrow Professor, Emeritus, Harvard Kennedy School
"A landmark of Holocaust historiography." -
Slavic Review
The Forward
As a force that had to serve two masters, both the Jewish population of the Kovno ghetto in Lithuania and its German occupiers, the Kovno Jewish ghetto police walked a fine line between helping Jews survive and meeting Nazi orders. In 1942 and 1943 some of its members secretly composed this history and buried it in tin boxes. This book details the creation and organization of the ghetto, the violent German attacks on the population in the summer of 1941, the periodic selections of Jews to be deported and killed, the labor required of the surviving Jewish population, and the efforts of the police to provide a semblance of stability.
A substantial introduction by distinguished historian Samuel D. Kassow places this powerful work within the context of the history of the Kovno Jewish community and its experience and fate at the hands of the Nazis.
"No book I've read in recent time about the Holocaust has so moved me, evoking the utter helplessness of the Jew, the plight of the Jewish policeand the cunning cruelty of the German. This is a gripping story, page by page, and it reminds us again that there but for the grace of God go we all." -Marvin Kalb, Senior Advisor to the Pulitzer Center and Edward R. Murrow Professor, Emeritus, Harvard Kennedy School
"A landmark of Holocaust historiography." -
Slavic Review
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