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