2023
Preexisting social ties among Auschwitz prisoners support Holocaust survival
BĚLÍN, Matěj, Tomáš JELÍNEK and Štěpán JURAJDABasic information
Original name
Preexisting social ties among Auschwitz prisoners support Holocaust survival
Authors
BĚLÍN, Matěj (203 Czech Republic), Tomáš JELÍNEK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Štěpán JURAJDA
Edition
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Washington, 2023, 0027-8424
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Article in a journal
Field of Study
50900 5.9 Other social sciences
Country of publisher
United States of America
Confidentiality degree
is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Impact factor
Impact factor: 11.100 in 2022
Organization unit
Moravian Business College Olomouc
UT WoS
001051921000002
EID Scopus
2-s2.0-85164541704
Keywords in English
Holocaust survival; Nazi concentration camp/ghetto; social networks
Tags
Changed: 21/2/2024 07:59, Ing. Michaela Nováková
Abstract
V originále
Survivor testimonies link survival in deadly POW camps, Gulags, and Nazi concentration camps to the formation of close friendships with other prisoners. To provide evidence free of survival bias on the importance of social ties for surviving the Holocaust, we study individual histories of 30 thousand Jewish prisoners who entered the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp on transports from the Theresienstadt ghetto. We ask whether the availability of potential friends among fellow prisoners on a transport influenced the chances of surviving the Holocaust. Relying on multiple proxies of preexisting social networks and varying social-linkage composition of transports, we uncover a significant survival advantage to entering Auschwitz with a larger group of potential friends.