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The Price of Life, the economic conditions of the existence of the Jews on the “Aryan side”

Grzegorz Berendt

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historyk, profesor Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego i naczelnik oddziałowego Biura Edukacji Publicznej IPN w Gdańsku. Badacz dziejów Pomorza Gdańskiego i polskich Żydów w XX wieku. Autor ponad 60 publikacji naukowych, w tym monografii: Żydzi na terenie Wolnego Miasta Gdańska w latach 1920-1945 (1997); Żydzi na gdańskim rozdrożu (1945-1950) (2000); Życie żydowskie w Polsce w latach 1950-1956. Z dziejów Towarzystwa Społeczno-Kulturalnego Żydów w Polsce (2006); Zjednoczenie Syjonistów Demokratów „Ichud”, [w:] A. Grabski, G. Berendt, Między emigracją a trwaniem.  Syjoniści i komuniści żydowscy w Polsce po Holocauście (2003)

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Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 4 (2008), pages: 110-143

Publication date: 2008-11-02

https://doi.org/10.32927/ZZSiM.269

Abstract

The texts deals primarily with two issues: means of support of the Jews who, despite the German’s will, found themselves outside specifically designated areas (ghettos, camps), and the economic situation of the Aryan population, whose help was necessary for their survival on the “Aryan side”. 

The author describes the process of gradual reduction of property remaining in Jewish hands, and, in part, the phenomenon of taking over the property of those already exterminated. The sources of legal and illegal income to cover maintenance are identified. The author indicates the dynamics of predatory exploitation of Polish territories by the German occupier and concludes that an overwhelming majority of Aryan but non-German inhabitants of Poland, during the mass escapes of Jews from the ghettos and camps (1942–1943), were not in a position to offer them long-term, disinterested material help. The article deals with both those offering help for humanistic reasons and those who treated the Jews as a source of additional income, either fulfilling the arrangements or failing to do so to the detriment of the Jewish contractors.

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Berendt, G. (2008). The Price of Life, the economic conditions of the existence of the Jews on the “Aryan side”. Zagłada Żydów. Studia I Materiały, (4), 110-143. https://doi.org/10.32927/ZZSiM.269

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No. 4 (2008)

ISSN:
1895-247X
eISSN:
2657-3571

Data publikacji:
2008-11-02

Dział: Studies