Research Catalog

Title

Judenrat; the Jewish councils in Eastern Europe under Nazi occupation. Introd. by Jacob Robinson.

Author

Trunk, Isaiah

Publication

New York, Macmillan [1972]

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Details

Description

xxxv, 664 p. illus.; 24 cm.

Summary

German authorities established in each ghetto a Jewish Council, to carry out Nazi directives -- to carry out living arrangements, to supply forced labor, and eventually to cooperate in the Final Solution.

Subject

• Geschichte 1939-1945
• 1900-1999
• Jews > Europe, Eastern > Politics and government
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: some basic issues that faced the Jewish Councils / Jacob Robinson -- The official decrees establishing the Jewish councils -- The emergence of the Jewish councils and their composition -- The central Jewish councils -- The organizational structure of the Jewish councils -- The economic situation of the Jews and the activities of Jewish councils -- Public welfare -- Medical aid -- Administrative, judicial, and police duties -- Religion, education, and other cultural activities -- The finances of the Jewish councils -- The Jewish councils and the occupation authorities -- The fluctuation in the composition of the councils -- The councils and the Jewish service organizations -- The personnel of the Jewish councils -- Mutual relations between the Jewish councils and the diverse groups in the ghettos -- The strategy and tactics of the councils toward the German authorities -- The attiitude of the councils toward physical resistance -- The ghetto police -- Opposition to the Jewish councils and the ghetto police -- Postwar trials of councilmen and ghetto police -- Conclusions -- Appendix I: analysis of the evaluation of the behavior of Jewish council members in our poll and in some eyewitness accounts -- Appendix II: Organizational rules of the Warsaw ghetto police confirmed by the German District Administration on November 29, 1940.

LCCN

^^^70173692^//r953

OCLC

• 482285
• SCSB-10232042

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library