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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: clandestine history of the Kovno Jewish ghetto police
  name:
    name part: Schalkowsky, Samuel
    role:
      role term: editor,
    role:
      role term: translator.
  name:
    name part: Kassow, Samuel D.
    role:
      role term: author of added text.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: inu
    date issued: 2014
    copyright date: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvii, 389 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: As a force that had to serve two masters, both the Jewish population of the Kovno ghetto in Lithuania and its German occupiers, the Kovno Jewish ghetto police walked a fine line between helping Jews survive and meeting Nazi orders. In 1942 and 1943 some of its members secretly composed this history and buried it in tin boxes. The book offers a rare glimpse into the complex situation faced by the ghetto leadership and the Jewish policemen, caught between carrying out the demands of the Germans and mollifying the anger and frustration of their own people. It details the creation and organization of the ghetto, the violent German attacks on the population in the summer of 1941, the periodic selections of Jews to be deported and killed, the labor required of the surviving Jewish population and the efforts of the police to provide a semblance of stability. The secret history tells a dramatic and complicated story, defending the actions of the police force on one page and berating its leadership on the next. A substantial introduction by distinguished historian Samuel D. Kassow places this powerful work within the context of the history of the Kovno Jewish community and its experience and fate at the hands of the Nazis.
  table of contents: Introduction -- The Prehistory ofthe Kovno Ghetto -- The Gruesome Period from the Beginning of the Ghetto to the Great Action -- Ghetto Situation after the Great Action (The survivor must live .. . ) -- The Elder Council, the Ghetto Institutions, the Police, and the Ghetto Population: Mutual Interrelationships -- Development of the Administrative Apparatus and of the Police after the Action -- The Ghetto Guard and the Jewish Police -- The Ghetto during the Time of the NSKK, Wiedmann, and Hermann (Spring and Summer I942) -- The Police in the Spring and Summer of I942 (the Caspi Period) -- The Ghetto in the Times of Koeppen, Miller, and the Vienna Protective Police (Schutz Polizei) -- The Police in the Last Quarter of r942
  note: by anonymous members of the Kovno Jewish ghetto police ; translated and edited by Samuel Schalkowsky ; introduction by Samuel D. Kassow.
  note: "Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D. C."
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-377) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-li---
  subject:
    topic: Jews
    topic: Persecutions
    geographic: Lithuania
    geographic: Kaunas
  subject:
    topic: Jews
    geographic: Lithuania
    geographic: Kaunas
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Jewish police officers
    geographic: Lithuania
    geographic: Kaunas
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
    geographic: Lithuania
    geographic: Kaunas
  subject:
    geographic: Kaunas (Lithuania)
    topic: Ethnic relations
  subject:
    geographic: Lithuania
    topic: History
    temporal: German occupation, 1941-1944
  classification: DS135.L52 K3829 2014
  classification: 940.53/184793
  identifier: 9780253012838 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  identifier: 025301283X (hbk. : alk. paper)
  identifier: 9780253012975 (ebook)
  identifier: 025301297X (ebook)
  identifier: 2013042348
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 131024
    record change date: 20151206101028.0
    record identifier: in00003436597