EAN: 9783319841441

PALGRAVE STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF GENOCIDE T...

This book examines Jewish life in Vienna just after the Nazi-takeover in 1938. Who were
Vienna's Jews  how did they react and respond to Nazism  and why? Drawing upon the voices of
the individuals and families who lived during this time  together with new archival
documentation  Ilana Offenberger reconstructs the daily lives of Vienna's Jews from Anschluss
in March 1938 through the entire Nazi occupation and the eventual dissolution of the Jewish
community of Vienna. Offenberger explains how and why over two-thirds of the Jewish community
emigrated from the country  while one-third remained trapped. A vivid picture emerges of the
co-dependent relationship this community developed with their German masters  and the false
hope they maintained until the bitter end. The Germans murdered close to one third of Vienna's
Jewish population in the final solution and their family members who escaped the Reich before
1941 chose never to return  they remained dispersed across the world. Thisis not a triumphant
history. Although the overwhelming majority survived the Holocaust  the Jewish community that
once existed was destroyed.

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