Research Catalog

Title

The clandestine history of the Kovno Jewish ghetto police / by anonymous members of the Kovno Jewish ghetto police ; translated and edited by Samuel Schalkowsky ; introduction by Samuel D. Kassow.

Publication

• Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2014]
• ©2014

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Details

Additional Authors

• Schalkowsky, Samuel
• Kassow, Samuel D.

Description

xvii, 389 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

"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. The book offers a rare glimpse into the complex situation faced by the ghetto leadership and the Jewish policemen, caught between carrying out the demands of the Germans and mollifying the anger and frustration of their own people. It 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. The secret history tells a dramatic and complicated story, defending the actions of the police force on one page and berating its leadership on the next. 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"--Provided by the publisher.

Subjects

• Lithuania > History > German occupation, 1941-1944
• Jews > Lithuania > Kaunas > History > 20th century
• Jewish police officers > Lithuania > Kaunas > History > 20th century
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Lithuania > Kaunas
• Kaunas (Lithuania) > Ethnic relations
• Jews > Persecutions > Lithuania > Kaunas

Note

• "Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D. C."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-377) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- The Prehistory ofthe Kovno Ghetto -- The Gruesome Period from the Beginning of the Ghetto to the Great Action -- Ghetto Situation after the Great Action (The survivor must live .. . ) -- The Elder Council, the Ghetto Institutions, the Police, and the Ghetto Population: Mutual Interrelationships -- Development of the Administrative Apparatus and of the Police after the Action -- The Ghetto Guard and the Jewish Police -- The Ghetto during the Time of the NSKK, Wiedmann, and Hermann (Spring and Summer I942) -- The Police in the Spring and Summer of I942 (the Caspi Period) -- The Ghetto in the Times of Koeppen, Miller, and the Vienna Protective Police (Schutz Polizei) -- The Police in the Last Quarter of r942

Call Number

*PXW (Kaunas) 14-220

ISBN

• 9780253012838 (hbk. : alk. paper)
• 025301283X (hbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780253012975 (ebook)
• 025301297X (ebook)

LCCN

2013042348

OCLC

857277378

Title

The clandestine history of the Kovno Jewish ghetto police / by anonymous members of the Kovno Jewish ghetto police ; translated and edited by Samuel Schalkowsky ; introduction by Samuel D. Kassow.

Publisher

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2014]

Copyright Date

©2014

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-377) and index.

Added Author

Schalkowsky, Samuel, editor, translator.

Kassow, Samuel D., writer of added text.

Research Call Number

*PXW (Kaunas) 14-220