Description
Book SynopsisThis book explores the Holocaust as a social process. Although the mass murder of European Jews was essentially the result of political-ideological decisions made by the Nazi state leadership, the events of the Holocaust were also part of a social dynamic.
Table of Contents1. Beyond the ‘Bystander’: Social Processes and Social Dynamics in European Societies as Context for the Holocaust; Frank Bajohr and Andrea Löw.- PART I: JEWS IN THE GERMAN REICH AFTER 1933.- 2. Fading Friendships and the ‘Decent German’: Reflecting, Explaining and Enduring Estrangement in Nazi Germany, 1933–1938; Anna Ullrich.- 3. Living in an Abnormal Normality: The Everyday Relations of Jews and Non-Jews in the German-Dutch Border Region, 1933–1938; Froukje Demant.- 4. Economic Trust in the ‘Racial State’: A Case Study from the German Countryside; Stefanie Fischer.- 5. ‘Life in Illegality Cost an Extortionate Amount of Money’: Ordinary Germans and German Jews Hiding from Deportation; Susanna Schrafstetter.- PART II: CASE STUDIES FROM EASTERN, SOUTH-EASTERN AND CENTRAL EUROPE.- 6. Collaborators, Bystanders or Rescuers?: The Role of Local Citizens in the Holocaust in Nazi-Occupied Belarus; Olga Baranova.- 7. Nationalizing the Holocaust: ‘Foreign’ Jews and the Making of Indifference in Macedonia under Bulgarian Occupation; Nadège Ragaru.- 8. Genocide in Times of Civil War: Popular Attitudes towards Ustaša Mass Violence, Croatia 1941–1945; Alexander Korb.- 9. The Pazifizierungsaktion as a Catalyst of Anti-Jewish Violence: A Study in the Social Dynamics of Fear; Tomasz Frydel.- 10. Slovak Society and the Jews: Attitudes and Patterns of Behaviour; Barbara Hutzelmann.- PART III: JEWISH LEADERSHIP AND JEWISH COUNCILS.- 11. Leadership in the Jewish Councils as a Social Process: The Example of Cracow; Andrea Löw and Agnieszka Zajączkowska-Drożdż.- 12. The Role of the Jewish Council during the Occupation of the Netherlands; Katja Happe.- 13. Negotiating and Compromising: Jewish Leaders’ Scope of Action in Tunis during Nazi Rule (November 1942–May 1943); Sophie Friedl.- PART IV: RELATIONS BETWEEN JEWS AND NON-JEWS AT A LOCAL/REGIONAL LEVEL.- 14. Neighbours in Borysław: Jewish Perceptions of Collaboration and Rescue in Eastern Galicia; Natalia Aleksiun.- 15. Beyond the Bystander: Relations between Jews and Gentile Poles in the General Government; Agnieszka Wierzcholska.- 16. The Transformation of Jewish-Non-Jewish Social Relations in a Gendarmerie District of Hungary, 1938–1944; Izabella Sulyok.- PART V: THE AFTERMATH - POST-WAR RETURNEES.- 17. Returning Home after the Holocaust: Jewish-Gentile Encounters in the Soviet Borderland; Diana Dumitru.- 18. The ‘Aryanization’ of Jewish Property in Amsterdam and its Consequences after the Second World WaR; Hinke Piersma and Jeroen Kemperman.
