Book chapter
Horror Story
Stealth Altruism, pp 87-98
2017
Abstract
Throughout the twelve years of the Holocaust, perpetrators and victims put significant obstacles in the way of Jews caring for Jews. Nazis employed starvation, fear, and uncertainty. The Nazis "set out to destroy Jewish souls before they destroyed Jewish bodies". Jewish victims were provided just enough food and drink to help the strongest live a bit longer as slave laborers, while less productive others of all ages were casually allowed to starve, wither, and die unnatural deaths. Uncertainty drew on unpredictable changes in Nazi policy. On August 24, 1943, some 1,260 barefooted, dazed, emaciated, and filthy Jewish children arrived at the Theresienstadt Transit Camp from the just-liquidated Bialystok Ghetto. The children had been told they were going to be sent to Switzerland and safety, as the Nazis would trade them there for captured German Officers.
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Details
- Title
- Horror Story
- Creators
- Arthur B. Shostak
- Publication Details
- Stealth Altruism, pp 87-98
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Edition
- 1
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Sociology; Culture and Communication [Historical]
- Other Identifier
- 991020705363004721