Building and Breaching the Ghetto Boundary: A Brief History of the Ghetto Fence in Körmend, Hungary, 1944.

Local authorities in Hungary placed a high priority on continuing economic relationships between Jews and non-Jews after ghettoization. An examination of local decision-making, as well as of the "leakiness" of the boundaries of a supposedly closed ghetto, deepens our knowledge of the Holocaust in Hungary and contributes to more general scholarship on Holocaust ghettoization. Taking Körmend, Hungary, as a case study, the author of this article focuses on contestations of ghetto boundaries. In response to specific needs, officials sanctioned both the re-routing and the breaching of the ghetto fence. Analysis of the permeability of this boundary thus provides insight into local authorities' thinking and offers an example of the under-studied phenomenon of territoriality in the ghettos. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]