Economy of Exploitation: 'Living Conditions' in the Ghettos of German-Occupied Eastern Poland

• Authors: Dean M.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The author discusses three issues: ghetto formation, Jewish workers and the living conditions, mainly based on examples from small ghettoes. From the very beginning, ghettoisation involved loss of property, privacy and autonomy. The author's analysis of the organisation of Jewish forced labour reveals a significant stratification among Jewish forced labourers. The economic aspects of the relations between the Jews and the local non-Jewish population was often omitted by Holocaust researchers, who focused primarily on the formation of German policy and its destructive consequences.

Keywords

EN

GHETTOS IN POLAND'S EASTERN BORDERLANDS; JEWS' LIFE UNDER GERMAN OCCUPATION; ROBBERY OF JEWISH BELONGINGS

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Zaglada Zydów. Studia i Materialy (Holocaust. Studies and Materials)
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 3
• Pages: 114-131
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Dean M.

• M. Dean, United States Holocaust Musem, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, Washington D.C., USA

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08PLAAAA05279985