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This book offers a study of the Jewish community in Kielce and its environs during World War II and the Holocaust:.
List of contents
PrefaceIntroduction
Chapter 1. The Jews of Kielce between the World Wars
Chapter 2. From Occupation to Ghettoization¿September 1939¿April 1941
Chapter 3. The Ghetto (April 1941¿August 1942)
Chapter 4. Deportation of the Jews of Kielce and Surrounding Areas (August 1942¿January 1943)
Chapter 5. The ¿Small Ghettö and the Labor Camps (September 1942¿August 1944)
Chapter 6. Jews and Poles in Kielce Subdistrict during the German Occupation
Epilogue
About the author
Sara Bender is Professor at the Department of Jewish History of the University of Haifa. Her studies compare the histories of the Jewish communities in Poland and Eastern Europe during World War II and the Holocaust, focusing on Poland and subjects such as Jewish resistance, relations with Poles in towns and villages, forced labor camps in the Radom district, and Jewish life among partisan units in Lithuania and west Belorussia. Her book
The Jews in Bialystok during World War II and the Holocaust was published by Brandeis University Press in 2008.
Summary
Offers a study of the Jewish community in Kielce and its environs during World War II and the Holocaust. The book is the first of its kind in providing a comprehensive account of Kielce's Jews and their history as victims under the German occupation.
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“Sara Bender’s In Enemy Land: The Jews of Kielce and the
Region, 1939-1946, appears at a time when Holocaust history is under new
pressures. These pressures are most evident in Poland, where a nationalist
government has seen fit – and has largely failed – to limit certain kinds of
Holocaust-related terminology if it ascribes guilt to Poles during wartime. … Bender’s
carefully researched and tightly focused study of Kielce and its environs is
not directly engaged with these discussions until its concluding chapter. But
Kielce, as is well known, was the site, in the spring of 1946, of the worst
postwar pogrom in liberated Poland. Like
the wartime events in the smaller northern town of Jedwabne, the events at
Kielce, in which 47 Holocaust survivors were murdered in mob violence, remain a
flashpoint in any postwar account of Polish-Jewish relations.” —Norman Ravvin, Canadian
Jewish News
