04393nam 2200709 450 991046091220332120210507234202.01-61811-285-610.1515/9781618112859(CKB)3710000000454798(EBL)3425620(SSID)ssj0001559139(PQKBManifestationID)16185749(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001559139(PQKBWorkID)14820146(PQKB)11482119(DE-B1597)541034(OCoLC)1135587308(DE-B1597)9781618112859(Au-PeEL)EBL3425620(CaPaEBR)ebr11083660(CaONFJC)MIL818761(OCoLC)935242839(ScCtBLL)31ebc088-ec58-4ea3-b1f8-d9a12d1ffc0b(MiAaPQ)EBC3425620(EXLCZ)99371000000045479820150812h20152015 uy 0engurnnu---|u||utxtccrThe first to be destroyed the Jewish community of Kleczew and the beginning of the final solution /Anetta Głowacka-Penczyńska, Tomasz Kawski, Witold Mędykowski ; edited by Tuvia Horev ; book design by Ivan GraveBoston, [Massachusetts] :Academic Studies Press,2015.©20151 online resource (450 p.)Judaism and Jewish LifeDescription based upon print version of record.1-61811-284-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --List of Photographs --List of Tables --List of Maps --Acknowledgements --Preface --Introduction --PART One. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF KLECZEW --Chapter 1. The Old Polish Period (Fifteenth-Eighteenth Centuries) --Chapter 2. The Partition and Foreign Occupation Period in Poland (Late Eighteenth-Early Twentieth Centuries) --Chapter 3. Interwar Kleczew (1918-1939) --PART Two. "IN THE EYE OF THE STORM": JEWS IN OCCUPIED KLECZEW AND REICHSGAU WARTHELAND --Chapter 4. The First Occupation Years: "Resettlement" and Deportation --Chapter 5. Forced Labor --PART Three. FIRST TO BE DESTROYED: THE BEGINNING OF ORGANIZED MASS EXTERMINATION --Chapter 6. "Piloting" the Organized Mass Extermination of Jews --Chapter 7. Establishment and Operation of the First Extermination Camp --PART Four. EPILOGUE: THE POSTWAR PERIOD --Chapter 8. Kleczew after the War --ANNEXES --Annex 1: Documents, Letters, and Testimonies --Annex 2: Stories of Descendants and Survivors of the Jewish Community of Kleczew --Annex 3: Tables --List of Abbreviations --Archival Sources --Bibliography --IndexThe Jewish community of the city of Kleczew came into existence in the sixteenth century. It remained large and strong throughout the next four hundred years, and in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it constituted 40-60% of the total population. The German army entered Kleczew on September 15, 1939, shortly after the outbreak of World War II. The communities of Kleczew and the vicinity were among the first Jewish collectives in Europe to be totally destroyed. The events presented in this book reveal that the organization of deportations and the methods of mass murder conducted in this district, by Kommando Lange, served as a model that would be applied later in the death camps during the mass extermination of Polish and European Jewry. If so, it was in the woods near Kleczew that the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" began.Judaism and Jewish life.JewsPolandJedwabneHistoryHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)PolandJedwabneKleczew (Poland)Ethnic relationsJewsHistory.Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)940.53180943836Głowacka-Penczyńska Anetta960505Kawski Tomasz1969-Mędykowski WitoldHorev TuviaGrave Ivan Platonovich1874-1960,Knowledge Unlatchedfndhttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fndMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910460912203321The first to be destroyed2177411UNINA