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International Journal of Epidemiology 2007 36(2):335-337; doi:10.1093/ije/dym045
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2007; all rights reserved.

Commentary: From links to bonds—what factors determined the survival of Jews during the holocaust?

Yoav Ben-Shlomo* and Zeev Ben-Shlomo

*Corresponding author. Department of Social Medicine, Canynge Hall, Whiteladies Road, Bristol BSW8 2PR, London, UK. E-mail: y.ben-shlomo@bristol.ac.uk

Keywords Holocaust, social capital, social networks, health inequalities

Accepted 22 February 2007

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‘... and whoever saves a single life is as if he had saved an entire universe.’

Jewish Mishnah, Sanhedrin 4:5

There are probably few readers who are not familiar with the diary of Anne Frank, a young Jewish Dutch girl, originally of German nationality, who wrote her diary whilst in hiding from the Nazis but was eventually betrayed and died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Peter Tammes1 provides a new quantitative analysis examining which sociodemographic factors were associated with the survival of Dutch Jewry using record linkage between the Amsterdam Jewish register and a list of all Jews who died in the German camps. This work in some ways represents a fairly unique test of ideas around social capital. Szreter and Woolcock2 have conceptualized three types of social capital; bonding, bridging and linking capital. Bonding capital reflects trusting and cooperative relations between members of a network who see themselves as being . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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