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“Sara Bender’s In Enemy Land: The Jews of Kielce and the Region, 1939-1946, appears at a time when Holocaust history is under new pressures. These pressures are most evident in Poland, where a nationalist government has seen fit – and has largely failed – to limit certain kinds of Holocaust-related terminology if it ascribes guilt to Poles during wartime. … Bender’s carefully researched and tightly focused study of Kielce and its environs is not directly engaged with these discussions until its concluding chapter. But Kielce, as is well known, was the site, in the spring of 1946, of the worst postwar pogrom in liberated Poland. Like the wartime events in the smaller northern town of Jedwabne, the events at Kielce, in which 47 Holocaust survivors were murdered in mob violence, remain a flashpoint in any postwar account of Polish-Jewish relations.” —Norman Ravvin, Canadian Jewish News
— Norman Ravvin
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Jews of Kielce between the World Wars
Chapter 2. From Occupation to Ghettoization—September 1939–April 1941
Chapter 3. The Ghetto (April 1941–August 1942)
Chapter 4. Deportation of the Jews of Kielce and Surrounding Areas (August 1942–January 1943)
Chapter 5. The “Small Ghetto” and the Labor Camps (September 1942–August 1944)
Chapter 6. Jews and Poles in Kielce Subdistrict during the German Occupation
Epilogue