Rounding Up

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgements v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I Hungarian Holocaust
5. Introduction 14
6. Germany and the Hungarian Holocaust 18
7. Antecedents 33
8. Rounding Up 37
9. Life in the Ghetto 42
10. Journey by Livestock Cars 54
11. What Did They Know? 58
12. Disembarkment 65
13. The First Hours 68
14. What Did They See? 72
15. Camp Life 76
16. Nutrition: Barely Enough to Die 84
17. Death by Labor 87
18. Victim Behavior, Humanity 95
19. Guards, Kapos, Fellow Prisoners, and Civilians 98
20. Resistance 108
21. Transfer, Evacuation 113
22. Liberation 121
23. Part II Arrow Cross Terror
24. Introduction 132
25. Terrorist Spaces 138
26. Numbers 141
27. Rescue and Betrayal 143
28. The Complexity of Rescue: The Sisters of Divine Love 155
29. The Power of Housekeepers 166
30. Torn Identities 172
31. Execution, Torture, Robbery 187
32. What Motivated Them? 202
33. Who Were They? 217
34. Annihilation 229
35. Escape 235
36. Survival of Humanity 238
37. Between Political Extremes 240
38. Part III Stalinism in Hungary
39. Soviet Occupation, Deportation 244
40. New Dictatorship, Old Habits 251
41. A New Elite 259
42. Life under Repression 260
43. Terror from Below 264
44. Collaboration, Resistance 269
45. Self-Policing or “Total Control”? 274
46. The Scope of Repression 289
47. The Top-Down, Bottom-Up Dynamic of Dictatorial Rule 310
48. Conclusion 340
49. Bibliography 360
50. Index of Personal Names 369