Author:
Goldstein, Ivo, author.
ImprintPittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2016.
Imprint2016
Descriptionvii, 728 pages ; 24 cm.
Note:Part I. Ideological and social prerequisites of persecution -- A brief history of Croatia -- The Jews in Zagreb prior to 1941 -- Anti-Semitism in the thirties: the horror begins -- The Jews in the life of Zagreb and Yugoslavia before 1941: from dire premonitions to their realization -- From exclusive Croatianhood to Ustasha anti-Semitism -- Part II. Spring and summer of 1941 : excommunication -- The beginning of persecution: public incitement, the first murders, and plunder -- Legal discrimination: the Third Reich as a model -- Wearing the Jewish insignia -- Requests to not wear the insignia and be granted Aryan rights -- A challenge to living: dismissal from all services -- The administrative machinery for implementing persecution -- The contribution -- Plundering Jewish property -- Evicting Jews from houses and apartments -- Salvation for a group of doctors -- Other forms of persecution -- The work of the Jewish religious community in Zagreb -- Part III. Summer and autumn of 1941 : concentration and extermination -- Mass arrests and transit camps -- Concentration camps, summary courts, and hostages -- Death camps on Mount Velebit and Pag Island: genocide -- The apogee of terror: Jasenovac -- On the way to execution: Loborgrad and Šakovo -- A new kind of correspondence: requests for release from camps -- Mixed marriages and "honorary Aryans" -- Care for the internees and for the survival of the Jewish religious community -- Part IV. Moving toward final annihilation, 1942-1943 -- In the new year: a new wave of persecution -- Deportations in August 1942 -- Saving the children, hiding in hospitals -- The agony on the eve of the last deportation -- Final annihilation: the deportations of May 1943 -- Part V. Trying to survive -- Converting to Catholicism -- To stay put or escape? -- Escape -- Joining the partisans: a way to save one's life and maintain human dignity -- Part VI. Epilogue -- The languishing of the remaining Jews -- The old people's home: from Maksimirska Road to Brezovica -- The Catholic Church, Archbishop Stepinac, and the Jews -- Who is responsible? -- Revisionism in Croatia: the case of Franjo Tudman -- Jews in the Ustasha State Administration -- The Ustashe, the Croats, and the Jews -- On the number of Jewish victims in Zagreb and Croatia -- A new beginning?
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 691-718) and index.
