Facing the Unfathomable: Victims’ Reactions to the Deportations to Death Camps

doi:10.1017/9781108900447.014

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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 May 2025

Dariusz Libionka and

Jerzy Giebułtowski

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Marion Kaplan and

Natalia Aleksiun

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Marion Kaplan: Affiliation:
New York University
Natalia Aleksiun: Affiliation:
University of Florida

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Summary

This chapter examines Jewish responses to “Operation Reinhardt” from the spring of 1942 until the fall of 1943. Examining the attitudes of the rank-and-file members of the Jewish Councils and the underground, as well as individual Jews in the ghettos in the Generalgouvernement, it pays close attention to the dilemmas Jews who remained in the ghetto faced, as more people tried to escape to the “Aryan” side and planned armed resistance.

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“Operation Reinhardt,” deportations Bełżec Sobibór Treblinka Jewish Fighting Organization (ŻOB)Warsaw ghetto escapes from ghettos “Aryan” side armed resistance labor camps deportation trains

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Information: The Cambridge History of the Holocaust , pp. 185 - 201

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108900447.014 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2025

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