Survivors

Warsaw under Nazi Occupation

Jadwiga Biskupska (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2022
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-316-51558-7 (ISBN)

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Survivors tells the story of life in Nazi occupied Warsaw, a city that was ruthlessly and brutally targeted by Nazi Germany from 1939 to 1944. Jadwiga Biskupska traces how Germany set out to dismantle the Polish nation and state by targeting the Warsaw intelligentsia and explores the intelligentsia's resistance to Nazi occupation.

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.

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.

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	07.02.2022
Reihe/Serie	Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises; 4 Maps
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	642 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-316-51558-3 / 1316515583
ISBN-13	978-1-316-51558-7 / 9781316515587
Zustand	Neuware