Barbara Engelking

Discusses the relationship between Polish Jews and non-Jews in the Polish countryside during the Holocaust. In 1942-43, between 120,000-250,000 Polish Jews managed to escape from ghettos and from trains transporting them to death camps. Most of them sought refuge with Polish peasants or hid in the woods. Aided by local authorities and part of the local population, the German occupiers launched a manhunt to track down hidden Jews, and set up a politics of terror in order to dissuade Poles from hiding Jews. Traces the active participation of Polish peasants, mostly motivated by profit, in the manhunt. The Jews paid dearly for silence on the part of those who hid them, and for the food they received. Once they ran out of money, Jews were often denounced or killed by their former helpers. Based on documents from communist-led trials in 1944-60 against collaborators, and on eyewitness testimonies, describes the harsh situation which led to only 30,000-40,000 of the hidden Jews surviving until 1945.

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