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  • 13 - German and Local Violence in the Balkans

  • from Part II - Times and Places
  • Edited by Mary Fulbrook, University College London, Jürgen Matthäus, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of the Holocaust
    Published online:
    21 May 2025
    Print publication:
    12 June 2025, pp 313-335

  • Summary

    This chapter explains the importance of German/Italian occupation for evolution of violence against the historical background (pre-occupation setting in the Balkans, German/Austrian First World War experiences, differences between Axis partners); and showcases interactions between occupiers and occupied, including autonomous measures against specific groups in terms of policies, camps, partisan warfare, and postwar ramifications.

  • ‘Your Salvation is the Struggle Against Fascism’: Yugoslav Communists and the Rescue of Jews, 1941–1945

  • EMIL KERENJI
  • Journal:
    Contemporary European History / Volume 25 / Issue 1 / February 2016
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    13 January 2016, pp. 57-74
    Print publication:
    February 2016
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  • This article recounts a little-known episode in which Yugoslav partisans, led by the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, rescued some 2,500 Jews from the former Italian camp for Jews in the northern Adriatic in the autumn of 1943. By focusing on this historical event, the article argues for broadening the notion of rescue of Jews during the Holocaust. Rather than locating ‘rescue’ in the motivations of individuals, the article takes as a point of departure the collective aspect of rescue and investigates the importance of the ideological considerations of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in its decision to rescue the Jews. Rather than in abstract ethical notions, the partisan rescue of the Jews was rooted in their political vision of the future socialist federation, of which the Jews were part.