It Happened ON OUR PLANET

מבחר תעודות 1933 - 1945 

עורך: וולף גרונר
עורכי המהדורה: גיא מירון, סוזנה היים

כרך זה פורס לפני הקוראים העבריים מבחר עשיר של תעודות על חיי היהודים בגרמניה הנאצית מעליית המשטר הנאצי עד פרוץ מלחמת העולם השנייה. חלקו הראשון, הרייך הגרמני 1937-1933 , מסתמך על הכרך הראשון בסדרת התעודות הגרמנית על תולדות רדיפתם ורציחתם של יהודי אירופה בידי גרמניה הנאצית:
Die Verfolgung und Ermordung der europäischen Juden durch das nationalsozialistische Deutschland 1933–1945 (VEJ)

 התעודות, המסודרות בסדר כרונולוגי, נותנות ביטוי למגוון נקודות מבט על האירועים: של היהודים שחיו בגרמניה תחת המשטר הנאצי; של החברה הגרמנית הלא־יהודית; של יהודים מחוץ לגרמניה; ושל גורמים בין־לאומיים. הן משקפות באופן בלתי אמצעי את תהליכי שלילת זכויותיהם והדרתם של היהודים מן החברה הגרמנית ואת דרכי התמודדותם של היהודים – הן בתור יחידים הן בתור קהילה – עם השלכות הנישול והבידוד החברתי בחיי היום־יום.

On Duty - The Role of the Polish Blue and Criminal Police in the Holocaust

By Jan Grabowski

The Polish Police, commonly called the Blue or uniformed police in order to avoid using the term “Polish,” has played a most lamentable role in the extermination of the Jews of Poland. The uniformed police has been an enthusiastic executor of all German directives regarding the Jews.

Emanuel Ringelblum, Warsaw, 1943

Shortly after the occupation of Poland in the fall of 1939, the Germans created the Blue Police, consisting mainly of prewar Polish police officers. Within a short time, this police force was responsible for enforcing many anti-Jewish regulations issued by the Nazis. Who were these policemen, and how did they transform from ordinary policemen to murderous executioners? And what was the role of the Germans in this horrifying picture?

Edited by: Eliyana R. Adler and Natalia Aleksiun

The Nazi persecution and murder of the Jews of Europe led to the atomization of the social relationships of the victims. Families were ripped apart. Entire communities were ghettoized and isolated from the outside world. The forced removal of the Jews from the midst of the non-Jewish population facilitated the crimes committed against them, significantly limited the assistance they could rely on, and restricted the number of witnesses to their persecution and murder. However, despite the devastation, disruption, and loss brought by the Holocaust, prewar patterns and lationships continued to shape decisions and actions by Jews and non-Jews both during and after the war. Even in extremis, they often relied on established networks of support that had been forged in very different circumstances. Jewish victims as well as bystanders and perpetrators relied on the already familiar cohort of relatives, neighbors, peers, and colleagues to support and assist them during this time. Just as these networks brought people with various backgrounds together, Entanglements of War compiles a broad range of interdisciplinary perspectives to reveal invaluable findings about the relationships, choices, and actions that shaped these complex connections, and their impact on Jewish lives during the Holocaust and its immediate aftermath.

Holocaust Survivors’ Emotional, Psychological, and Social Journeys in the Early Postwar Period

Editors: Constance Pâris de Bollardière and Sharon Kangisser Cohen

His reaction to my cautious questions about his parents, his brothers and sisters, his experiences in the concentration camp was characteristic. His only response was to let his head drop onto his chest. He remained sitting in this posture in silence for some time. It must be said here without pathos or literary embellishment that it is only now that he has been returned to normal life that this child feels the pain and torment of everything he has seen and experienced.

Hans Keilson