Ghettostadt : : Łódź and the Making of a Nazi City / / Gordon J Horwitz.

Ghettostadt is the terrifying examination of the Jewish ghetto's place in the Nazi worldview. Exploring ghetto life in its broadest context, it deftly maneuvers between the perspectives and actions of Lódz's beleaguered Jewish community, the Germans who oversaw and administered the ghetto&...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]
©2008
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Prologue --
1. Autumn 1939: Conquest --
2. A City without Jews --
3. The Enclosure --
4. The Ghetto Will Endure --
5. The Ghetto and the City of the Future --
6. Banishment --
7. Departure, Worry, and Disappearance --
8. "Give Me Your Children" --
9. Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die? --
10. Numbered Are the Days --
Epilogue --
Notes --
Acknowledgments --
Index
Summary:Ghettostadt is the terrifying examination of the Jewish ghetto's place in the Nazi worldview. Exploring ghetto life in its broadest context, it deftly maneuvers between the perspectives and actions of Lódz's beleaguered Jewish community, the Germans who oversaw and administered the ghetto';s affairs, and the "ordinary" inhabitants of the once Polish city.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9780674038790
9783110442205
9783110459517
9783110662566
DOI:10.4159/9780674038790
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Gordon J Horwitz.