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Author Sliwa, Joanna, author.

Title Jewish childhood in Kraków : a microhistory of the Holocaust / Joanna Sliwa.

Publication Info. New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2021.

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Terminology -- Introduction -- 1. Navigating Shifts in the City -- 2. Adapting to Life inside the Ghetto -- 3. Clandestine Activities -- 4. Child Welfare -- 5. Concealed Presence in the Camp -- 6. Survival through Hiding and Flight -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations Used in Notes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
Summary 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.
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Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Jewish children -- Poland -- Kraków -- History -- 20th century.
Jewish children.
Jews.
History.
Poland -- Kraków.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Poland -- Kraków.
Children and war -- Poland -- Kraków -- History -- 20th century.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Kraków.
Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945)
Jews -- Poland -- Kraków -- History -- 20th century.
Jewish ghettos -- Poland -- Kraków -- History -- 20th century.
Children and war.
Kraków (Poland) -- Ethnic relations -- 20th century.
Jewish ghettos.
HISTORY -- General.
HISTORY / General.
Children.
Ethnic relations.
World War (1939-1945)
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Sliwa, Joanna Jewish Childhood in Kraków New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press,c2021 9781978822948
ISBN 9781978822955 (electronic book)
1978822952 (electronic book)
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