The clandestine history of the Kovno Jewish ghetto police

Titel: The clandestine history of the Kovno Jewish ghetto police / Translated and edited by Samuel Schalkowsky Introduction by Samuel D. Kassow
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Veröffentlicht: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2014
Umfang: xvii, 389 pages
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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ISBN: 9780253012838 ; 9780253012975
  • Preface
  • p. ix
  • Acknowledgments
  • p. xv
  • Inside the Kovno Ghetto
  • p. 1
  • History of the Viliampole [Kovno] Jewish Ghetto Police
  • 1
  • Introduction
  • p. 63
  • 2
  • The Prehistory of the Kovno Ghetto
  • p. 65
  • The First Weeks
  • p. 65
  • Transfer to the Ghetto
  • p. 70
  • 3
  • The Gruesome Period from the Beginning of the Ghetto to the Great Action
  • p. 77
  • The First Days; Establishment of the Jewish Ghetto Police
  • p. 77
  • The Personal Effects and Gold "Actions"
  • p. 85
  • Development and Expansion of the Police Force
  • p. 90
  • The "Jordan Certificates" and the "Rehearsal Action"
  • p. 106
  • Airfield and City Work Brigades
  • p. 112
  • The Actions: In the "Box" (September 26, 1941) and in the "Small Ghetto" (October 4, 1941)
  • p. 120
  • The Great Action
  • p. 132
  • "Episode" of the German Jews
  • p. 147
  • 4
  • Ghetto Situation after the Great Action (The survivor must live...)
  • p. 158
  • After the Action: Moods and Rumors; Camp or Ghetto
  • p. 158
  • Labor Quota
  • p. 161
  • Material Conditions
  • p. 170
  • Events in the Ghetto after the Great Action
  • p. 178
  • 5
  • The Elder Council, the Ghetto Institutions, the Police, and the Ghetto Population: Mutual Interrelationships
  • p. 187
  • 6
  • Development of the Administrative Apparatus and of the Police after the Action
  • p. 208
  • 7
  • The Ghetto Guard and the Jewish Police
  • p. 253
  • The New Ghetto Guard (NSKK) Located inside the Ghetto
  • p. 253
  • The Gate and the Gate Guard
  • p. 263
  • The Ghetto Guard and the Police Intermediary (Relations with Germans and Lithuanians)
  • p. 269
  • 8
  • The Ghetto during the Time of the NSKK, Wiedmann, and Hermann (Spring and Summer 1942)
  • p. 284
  • Jordan's Last Actions (The Riga Action and the Book Action)
  • p. 284
  • Departure of Jordan and Kaminski
  • p. 288
  • New Masters, New Winds (Wiedmann, Hermann-German Labor Office)
  • p. 289
  • Evacuation of "Brazilke"
  • p. 293
  • Workers for Palemon
  • p. 294
  • The Labor Quota
  • p. 295
  • Economic Conditions; Gardens
  • p. 297
  • The Vilna Letter Episode
  • p. 299
  • Ghetto Commissions
  • p. 300
  • 9
  • The Police in the Spring and Summer of 1942 (the Caspi Period)
  • p. 302
  • The Appearance of Caspi
  • p. 302
  • The Caspi Personality
  • p. 308
  • Police Reforms and Reorganizations; New Management
  • p. 312
  • Caspi's Departure
  • p. 318
  • 10
  • The Ghetto in the Times of Koeppen, Miller, and the Vienna Protective Police (Schutz Polizei)
  • p. 319
  • An Economy without Money
  • p. 319
  • Days of Awe, Again Palemon
  • p. 321
  • Vienozinskio Area Cleared Again
  • p. 325
  • Riga a Second Time
  • p. 325
  • The Meck Episode
  • p. 327
  • Assaults
  • p. 331
  • Chanukah and the New Year-Beginning of the Ghetto Bright Period (the Time of Miller)
  • p. 333
  • 11
  • The Police in the Last Quarter of 1942
  • p. 335
  • New Units (Gate and Detention-House Guards; Jail and Workshop Guards)
  • p. 335
  • Expansion of the Administrative Work of the Police (Penal Department, Criminal Department, "Passportization," Administrative Penalties)
  • p. 340
  • The Police as a Social Organization (the Swearing-in Ceremony, Police Concerts)
  • p. 357
  • Appendix: Evolution of the Manuscript
  • p. 363
  • Bibliography
  • p. 375
  • Index
  • p. 379