Survivors

Warsaw under Nazi Occupation

AvJadwiga Biskupska

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

Del i serien Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare

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Beskrivning

Survivors tells the harrowing story of life in Warsaw under Nazi occupation. As the epicenter of Polish resistance, Warsaw was subjected to violent persecution, the ghettoization of the city's Jewish community, the suppression of multiple uprisings, and an avalanche of restrictions that killed hundreds of thousands and destroyed countless lives. In this study into the unique brutality of wartime Warsaw, Jadwiga Biskupska traces how Nazi Germany set out to dismantle the Polish nation and state for long-term occupation by targeting its intelligentsia. She explores how myriad resistance projects emerged within the intelligentsia who were bent on maintaining national traditions and rebuilding a Polish state. In contrast to other studies on the Holocaust and Second World War, this book focuses on Polish behavior and explains who was in a position to contest the occupation or collaborate with it, while answering lingering questions and addressing controversies about the Nazi empire and the Holocaust in Eastern Europe.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-02-17
Mått:156 x 235 x 22 mm
Vikt:642 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
Antal sidor:344
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781316515587

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Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Jadwiga Biskupska is Assistant Professor of History at Sam Houston State University in Hunstville, Texas. She is co-director of Second World War Research Group, North America (SWWRGNA) and a former fellow of the Mandel Center at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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'In this chilling portrait of the Nazi occupation of Warsaw, Biskupska uncovers how the Polish intelligentsia struggled to preserve the nation through their networks in prisons and concentration camps, clandestine schools, churches, dissident movements, and armed opposition. With compassion and clarity, she reveals the complex moral choices Poles faced as Nazi efforts to subjugate Poles evolved into a campaign of annihilation.' Emily Greble, Vanderbilt University

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; 1. Warsaw besieged: September 1939; 2. The killing years; 3. Pawiak prison; 4. The Warsaw ghetto: A people set apart; 5. Information wars; 6. School of hard knocks: Illegal education; 7. Matters of faith: Catholic intelligentsia and the church; 8. Spoiling for a fight: Armed opposition; 9. Home army on the offensive: Violence in 1943–1944; Conclusion.