Hunt for the Jews
First edition (Polish) | |
| Author | Jan Grabowski |
|---|---|
| Original title | Judenjagd: polowanie na Żydów 1942-1945 |
| Language | English / Polish / Hebrew |
| Subject | Holocaust in Poland |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press / Center for Holocaust Studies |
Publication date | 2011 |
| Publication place | Canada / Poland / Israel |
Published in English | 2013 |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 303 / 257 |
| ISBN | 9780253010872 Polish book is 9788393220205 |
Hunt for the Jews: Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland is a 2013 book about the Holocaust in Poland by Jan Grabowski. The 2013 English edition followed a 2011 Polish-language edition (published as Judenjagd: polowanie na Żydów) and was in turn followed by a 2016 Hebrew edition.
The book describes the Judenjagd (German: "Jew hunt") from 1942 onwards, focusing on Dąbrowa Tarnowska County, a rural area in southeastern Poland. The Judenjagd was the German search for Jews who had escaped from the German-liquidated ghettos in Poland and tried to hide among the non-Jewish population.
Grabowski asserts that most of the Jews in hiding perished due to betrayal by local Poles, either via denunciation to German authorities or after being taken captive and being delivered by locals to the German gendarmerie or German-run "Polish police".
The book sparked a heated public debate, particularly when first published in Poland in 2011.