Visible as people, yet invisible as jews

Abstract: Based on their fates, it is possible to categorise the Jewish population of Slovakia from 1938 to 1945 into four groups (which can be further subdivided). The most extensive group were the prisoners in the Nazi concentration camps and labour camps in Slovakia. They were followed by “legal Jews”, hidden Jews, “Aryan” Jews, who used false “Aryan” documents in the mainstream society, and last but not least, fighters in partisan units or allied armies. This study analyzes the way of survival of the “Aryan Jews” following the materials gained by oral history and information from professional literature and memoirs. I focused on preparation, way of obtaining false documents, life in the mainstream society, and hidden emotions when confronted with captured Jews. Although physically “nothing had happened” to most of them, the Aryan Jews were exposed to constant stress; psychological impacts of “the life in disguise” accompanied them a long time after liberation.

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Visible as people, yet invisible as jews ; volume:29 ; number:1 ; year:2019 ; pages:95-107 ; extent:13 ; Human affairs ; 29, Heft 1 (2019), 95-107 (gesamt 13)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Salner, Peter

Further information

• DOI: 10.1515/humaff-2019-0009
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022111813411144776348
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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