EAN: 9783319816135

THE HOLOCAUST AND ITS CONTEXTS BUDAPEST BUILD...

This book traces the role of Budapest building managers or concierges during the Holocaust. It
analyzes the actions of a group of ordinary citizens in a much longer timeframe than Holocaust
scholars usually do. Thus  it situates the building managers' activity during the war against
the background of the origins and development of the profession as a by-product of the
development of residential buildings since the forming of Budapest. Instead of presenting a
snapshot from 1944  it shows that the building managers' wartime acts were influenced and
shaped by their long-term social aspiration for greater recognition and their economic
expectations. Rather than focusing solely on pre-war antisemitism  this book takes into
consideration other factors from the interwar period  such as the culture of tipping. In
Budapest  during June 1944  the Jewish residents were separated not into a single closed ghetto
area  but by the authorities designating dispersed apartment buildings as 'ghetto houses'. The
almost 2 000 buildings were spread throughout the entire city and the non-Jewish concierges
serving in these houses represented the link between the outside and the inside world. The
empowerment of these building managers happened as a side-effect of the anti-Jewish legislation
and these concierges found themselves in an intermediary position between the authorities and
the citizens.

Aktuelle Preise zur EAN 9783319816135

Produktinformationen zur 9783319816135