Burgenland
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Burgenland

Village Secrets and the First Tremors of the Holocaust

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eBook - ePub

Burgenland

Village Secrets and the First Tremors of the Holocaust

About this book

When Hitler marched into Austria in March 1938, he was given a rapturous reception. Millions lined the streets and filled the squares of Vienna. Tobias Portschy, a self-appointed regional Nazi chief, considered what to give the Fuhrer for his birthday, and devised a particular gift from the Austrian people: the elimination of Jewish life in the Burgenland, picturesque farming country about 70 km south-east of Vienna. Eichmann took note of the brutal methodology. The Holocaust had begun.

Burgenland is an astonishing survey of Jewish history in Central Europe, an account of the opening salvo of what turned into the systematic industrial-scale genocide of European Jewry, a stern examination of British policy and the world's wholly inadequate response. It is also a deeply personal memoir and family history. Impeccably researched and hugely ambitious in scope, it narrates the full arc of the Jewish experience in Central Europe over 300 years, following the lives of one family who played a significant part in events described, from the struggle for civil liberties to the resistance to fascism and the rise of Zionism.

David Joseph has dissected an uncomfortable history, and the results demand a substantial reassessment of the orthodox narrative around the Holocaust both in Britain and in Austria.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Preface
  3. Family Tree
  4. Maps
  5. Part One: The Village
  6. 1 The Photograph
  7. 2 Herr M
  8. 3 Esterházy’s Jews
  9. 4 The Blood Libel of Orkuta
  10. 5 Beards and Bayonets
  11. 6 Emancipation to World War
  12. 7 12th February Battalion
  13. Part Two: Fallen
  14. 8 Doorstep Condition
  15. 9 White Flags
  16. 10 Closing Time
  17. 11 Vienna’s Spring Pogrom
  18. 12 Shuttered Gates
  19. 13 Af Al Pi
  20. Part Three: Escape
  21. 14 The Next Boat Out
  22. 15 The Life of Sarah
  23. 16 Kristallnacht/Kristalltag
  24. 17 Ten Days in November
  25. 18 Safe Shores
  26. 19 Max’s Diary
  27. Part Four: Life and Death
  28. 20 Stripped Bare
  29. 21 A Dishonourable Piece of Business
  30. 22 The Rim
  31. 23 The Kladovo Transport
  32. 24 Journey’s End
  33. 25 Eichmann
  34. 26 Jeno
  35. 27 Time Runs Out
  36. 28 Heinrich and Karoline
  37. Part Five: Taking Account
  38. 29 Lackenbach Revisited
  39. 30 Open and Shut
  40. Notes
  41. Acknowledgements
  42. Bibliography