Chapter 3. Interwar Kleczew (1918–1939)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Photographs xii
4. List of Tables xvi
5. List of Maps xviii
6. Acknowledgements xix
7. Preface xxiii
8. Introduction 1
9. PART One. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF KLECZEW
10. Chapter 1. The Old Polish Period (Fifteenth–Eighteenth Centuries) 9
11. Chapter 2. The Partition and Foreign Occupation Period in Poland (Late Eighteenth–Early Twentieth Centuries) 37
12. Chapter 3. Interwar Kleczew (1918–1939) 73
13. PART Two. “IN THE EYE OF THE STORM”: JEWS IN OCCUPIED KLECZEW AND REICHSGAU WARTHELAND
14. Chapter 4. The First Occupation Years: “Resettlement” and Deportation 133
15. Chapter 5. Forced Labor 224
16. PART Three. FIRST TO BE DESTROYED: THE BEGINNING OF ORGANIZED MASS EXTERMINATION
17. Chapter 6. “Piloting” the Organized Mass Extermination of Jews 257
18. Chapter 7. Establishment and Operation of the First Extermination Camp 321
19. PART Four. EPILOGUE: THE POSTWAR PERIOD
20. Chapter 8. Kleczew after the War 379
21. ANNEXES
22. Annex 1: Documents, Letters, and Testimonies 403
23. Annex 2: Stories of Descendants and Survivors of the Jewish Community of Kleczew 462
24. Annex 3: Tables 498
25. List of Abbreviations 562
26. Archival Sources 564
27. Bibliography 567
28. Index 599