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