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life course and was shaped by a num
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this study were born at the end of
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increasingly exclusionary visions o
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exhibited in his rule of the Łódz
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feeble old man: “The old man with
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assessment. Older men and women had
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of the ghetto the hallmarks of comm
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By summer 1942 the connection betwe
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community’s emphasis on productio
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“useless.” 96 Those categories
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construction of personal identity i
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slave labor because it hastened the
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Responding logically, Rumkowski emp
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words been given their full due by
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elderly Jews in the Łódź ghetto,
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these men identified with an occupa
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approximately 300 workers. 124 With
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China and as chief engineer at a re
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an exercise in negotiating new iden
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Between 1940 and 1942 manufacturing
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the benefit of developing and maint
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was to help with the expansion of g
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common financial and social commitm
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From Rumkowski and the ghetto elite
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the transformative effects of power
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the rank of colonel. He continued t
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Wilhelm Caspari (b. 4 February 1872
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1939 translated into steadfast idea
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“the main thing is that they are
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in addition to the changing role of
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Elderly men and women acted as crit
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son worked as an engineer in Łód
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was involved. 191 Perhaps this refl
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care for her. 196 Mrs. Karp, a self
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and acted with purpose. The mother
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that her presence was a serious dis
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denied food by their families, they
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hunger and illness. According to th
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Within this timeframe, the aged res
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Shrayboym wrote, “great is my ang
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was living in Warsaw, the other she
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Kosowski petitioned for re-entry to
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nature.” 231 Habit was only a par
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observed the intimate bond between
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2.5 Conclusions As a lens for under
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CHAPTER 3: THE AGED AND THE COMMUNI
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1874 in Slonimo) was a highly educa
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once or twice per week beginning in
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ecause Rumkowski determined that he
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saddened him most was to see how th
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3.3 Communal Aid for Older Jews Eff
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Rumkowski secured a loan from the G
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substantiate the veracity of the ap
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The act of submitting an applicatio
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to the community before the war. He
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time of need. Rumkowski’s Departm
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wrote: “Each of the pensioners ca
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to free us from our plight, please
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elderly people, I turn to you with
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a paragraph to express her advanced
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and persecution. The home began as
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effectively. And, as Zelkowicz note
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the inability of Jews from the Reic
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“[…] A singer still demands to
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and implemented two phases of Aktio
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An opportunity to kill two birds wi
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3.7 Conclusions So few of the elder
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intervene? Then I shift focus to th
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ecause elderly and children were th
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summer of 1942 is impossible to asc
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However, the entry testified to the
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certificates, registration books an
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The social welfare system created i
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will say a word on behalf of old pe
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Aktion to the conduct of German aut
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26 July 1942, Herman Kruk observed
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Most Jewish accounts portrayed a st
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children to designated collection p
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this provides no security, because
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A life of piety and of “fealty to
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Hiding was difficult for older men
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who had spent decades together. Daw
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harried features and the deathly te
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The other involved Selver-Urbach’
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itter fate, for sure, but the klal,
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Families were destroyed in the proc
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4.11 Conclusions If there was any q
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CONCLUSION On January 18, 1943 the
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atmosphere of life in the ghettos e
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and close quarters dictated that th
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Just as Jews left in the ghetto in
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R 70 - Polizeidienststelle in einge
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_____. Zydzi a Powstanie Styczniowe
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Bankier, David, and Dan Michman, ed
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Burr, Vivien. “Psychological Dist
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Friedländer, Saul. Nazi Germany an
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_____. “The Modern Jewish Family:
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Kuperstein, Isaiah. “Rumors: A So
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———. “Motherhood Under Sieg
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Shenk, Dena, Boyd Davis, James R. P
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Wachsmann, Nikolaus. “‘Annihila