The clandestine history of the Kovno Jewish ghetto police / (Record no. 204524)
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| fixed length control field | 03535nam a2200457 i 4500 |
| ISBN | 9780253012975 (e-book) |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 940.53/184793 |
| 245 04 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The clandestine history of the Kovno Jewish ghetto police / |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 1 online resource (414 pages) : |
| Other physical details | illustrations |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | "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. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Jews |
| Topical Term | Jews |
| Topical Term | Jewish police officers |
| Topical Term | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Schalkowsky, Samuel, |
| Personal name | Kassow, Samuel D., |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10847980 |
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| -- | Bloomington : |
| -- | Indiana University Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C., |
| -- | [2014] |
| -- | �2014 |
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| -- | online resource |
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| -- | Description based on print version record. |
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