Social networks and surviving the Holocaust

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985998%3A_____%2F22%3A00559057" target="_blank" >RIV/67985998:_____/22:00559057 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11640/22:00559059
Result on the web
<a href="https://docs.iza.org/dp15130.pdf" target="_blank" >https://docs.iza.org/dp15130.pdf</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Social networks and surviving the Holocaust
Original language description
Survivor testimonies link survival in deadly POW camps, Gulags, and Nazi concentration camps to the formation of close friendships with other prisoners. We provide statistical evidence consistent with these fundamentally selective testimonies. We study the survival of the 140 thousand Jews who entered the Theresienstadt ghetto, where 33 thousand died and from where over 80 thousand were sent to extermination camps. We ask whether an individual’s social status prior to deportation, and the availability of potential friends among fellow prisoners influenced the risk of death in Theresienstadt, the ability to avoid transports to the camps, and the chances of surviving Auschwitz. Pre-deportation social status protected prisoners in the self-administered society of the Theresienstadt ghetto, but it was no longer helpful in the extreme conditions of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Relying on multiple proxies of pre-existing social networks, we uncover a significant survival advantage to entering Auschwitz with a group of potential friends.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GA19-05523S" target="_blank" >GA19-05523S: Surviving Theresienstadt: The Social Structure of a Nazi Ghetto</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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