The Hungarian Labor Service System, 1939-1945


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Part of a collection of fundamental studies of various aspects of the Holocaust by the leading western scholar of the Holocaust.




The Wartime System of Labor Service in Hungary


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This volume aims to convey the realities of life in labour service companies through the personal narratives of survivors. The four narratives included were selected to dramatize some of the most distinct experiences endured by labour servicemen.




The Hungarian Jewish Catastrophe


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Comprises 2,479 entries, many annotated, in the European languages, Hebrew, and Yiddish. Deals with the Holocaust and the period before and after World War II, including sections on antisemitism and racism, antisemitic literature, anti-Jewish legislation, antisemitic professional associations, the Holocaust, war criminals and war crimes trials, neo-Nazism, neo-antisemitism.







My Longest Year


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The Holocaust experiences of Moshe Sandberg, former Governor of the Bank of Israel, who recounts his wartime experience in the Dachau concentration camp.




Conscripted Slaves


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From the spring of 1942 until the summer of 1944, some 45,000 Jewish men were forced to accompany Hungarian troops to the battle zone of the Soviet Union. Some 80% of the Jewish forced laborers never returned home. They fell prey to battle, starvation, disease, and grinding labor, aggravated immensely by brutality and even outleft murder at the hands of the Hungarian soldiers responsible for them. This study constitutes a unique and invaluable chapter in the mosaic of Holocaust history. The laborers' personal accounts speak powerfully to every Jewish family that lived under Hungarian rule during the Holocaust years, because it is their own personal story. But it is not one to be kept in the family alone, since it is profoundly relevant to all people.







The Holocaust in Hungary


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This comprehensive study of the Holocaust in Hungary addresses a broad historic perspective consisting of contributions by twenty-one distinguished scholars. The text includes a keynote address by Elie Wiesel and deals with both wartime, and postwar Holocaust issues in Hungary, as well as some of the art and literature that arose out of the devastation.




The Politics of Genocide: Prelude to destruction. From consolidation to proto-fascism. The Jewish community of Hungary before the destruction. The beginning of the end. The Teleki Era. The Bardossy Era. The Kallay Era. Treatment of Hungarian Jews in German Occupied Europe. The first mass deportation plans. The labor service system. The road to destruction. The occupation forces and authorities. formation of the Sztojay government. The Jewish Council. The first anti-Jewish measures. The processes of economic destruction. Ghettoization, phase 1. Zone 2, Northern Transylvania


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A comprehensive history of the Holocaust in Hungary, relating also to the history of Hungarian Jewry from its emancipation in 1849 to the present. The first anti-Jewish laws in the 1920s and the increase of antisemitism in the 1930s were followed by persecution, forced military occupation by the Nazis, ghettoization, and deportation. Discusses the events of the Holocaust according to six territorial zones: the Carpathians and the northeastern parts of Hungary; northern Transylvania; northern Hungary; southeastern Hungary; western Hungary; Budapest and environs. Describes the fate of the Jews in many locations. Relates, inter alia, to the military labor service units, the Jewish Council, Jewish rescue operations, the Nazis' actions and the cooperation of the Hungarian authorities, and the actions of the Arrow Cross, as well as international interventions and rescue actions of the Christian Churches.




Hitler's Slaves


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During World War II at least 13.5 million people were employed as forced labourers in Germany and across the territories occupied by the German Reich. Most came from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldavia, the Baltic countries, France, Poland and Italy. Among them were 8.4 million civilians working for private companies and public agencies in industry, administration and agriculture. In addition, there were 4.6 million prisoners of war and 1.7 million concentration camp prisoners who were either subjected to forced labour in concentration or similar camps or were ‘rented out’ or sold by the SS. While there are numerous publications on forced labour in National Socialist Germany during World War II, this publication combines a historical account of events with the biographies and memories of former forced labourers from twenty-seven countries, offering a comparative international perspective.