Jewish Fugitives In The Polish Countryside 1939 1945

Author : Joanna Tokarska-Bakir
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3631849273

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Jewish Fugitives in the Polish Countryside, 1939-1945 by Joanna Tokarska-Bakir Pdf

Focused on the struggle to survive by the Jewish Poles stranded in the Polish countryside during the Holocaust, case studies collected in this volume are based on research carried out at Poland's Institute of National Remembrance. Where possible, they are also complemented by Jewish survivors' testimonies dispersed throughout the world. There are at least two leitmotifs recurring throughout all texts: What are the social correlates of the anti-Jewish violence undertaken by Polish neighbours without German initiative and even knowledge? Are there certain types of social relationships more subject or prone to this kind of violence? What was the role of peasantry, social elites, and Catholic church in inciting and perpetrating it? Was this violence influenced by the Holocaust, or was it a separate form of genocidal violence?

Author : Barbara Engelking
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN : 9653085417

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Such a Beautiful Sunny Day ... by Barbara Engelking Pdf

Jews seeking refuge in the Polish countryside, 1942-1945.

Author : Tatiana Berenstein,Adam Rutkowski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN : UCAL:$B181687

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Assistance to the Jews in Poland, 1939-1945 by Tatiana Berenstein,Adam Rutkowski Pdf

Author : Jan Grabowski
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253010872

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Hunt for the Jews by Jan Grabowski Pdf

A revealing account of Polish cooperation with Nazis in WWII—a “grim, compelling [and] significant scholarly study” (Kirkus Reviews). Between 1942 and 1943, thousands of Jews escaped the fate of German death camps in Poland. As they sought refuge in the Polish countryside, the Nazi death machine organized what they called Judenjagd, meaning hunt for the Jews. As a result of the Judenjagd, few of those who escaped the death camps would survive to see liberation. As Jan Grabowski’s penetrating microhistory reveals, the majority of the Jews in hiding perished as a consequence of betrayal by their Polish neighbors. Hunt for the Jews tells the story of the Judenjagd in Dabrowa, Tarnowska, a rural county in southeastern Poland. Drawing on materials from Polish, Jewish, and German sources created during and after the war, Grabowski documents the involvement of the local Polish population in the process of detecting and killing the Jews who sought their aid. Through detailed reconstruction of events, “Grabowski offers incredible insight into how Poles in rural Poland reacted to and, not infrequently, were complicit with, the German practice of genocide. Grabowski also, implicitly, challenges us to confront our own myths and to rethink how we narrate British (and American) history of responding to the Holocaust” (European History Quarterly).

Author : Ryszard Juskiewicz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105070023929

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Those who Helped by Ryszard Juskiewicz Pdf

Presents two lists of Poles who helped Jews. Pp. 29-84, "They Were Killed for the Help They Gave", gives names and biographical information on 450 Poles who were killed because they helped Jews, based on documentation collected in the archives of the Main Commission for Investigation of Crimes against the Polish Nation. So far, half of the archive documents have been verified. Pt. 2 will contain the rest of the material. The second list (p. 93-144), "The Righteous among the Nations" (up to 31 December 1991), contains the names of Poles awarded that title by Yad Vashem. Explains the discrepancy in the two lists - only fifteen of the Poles who were killed for helping Jews have received recognition from Yad Vashem; two witnesses are required to verify that help was provided, and in most of these cases the potential witnesses were also killed.

Author : Joshua D. Zimmerman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107014268

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The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945 by Joshua D. Zimmerman Pdf

Zimmerman examines the attitude and behavior of the Polish Underground towards the Jews during the Holocaust.

Author : Norman Davies,Antony Polonsky
Publisher : Springer
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1991-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349217892

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Jews in Eastern Poland and the USSR, 1939-46 by Norman Davies,Antony Polonsky Pdf

This book is the first to deal with the impact on the Jews of the area of the sovietization of Eastern Poland. Polish resentment at alleged Jewish collaboration with the Soviets between 1939 and 1941 affected the development of Polish-Jewish relations under Nazi rule and in the USSR. The role of these conflicts both in the Anders army and in the Communist-led Kosciuszko division and 1st Polish Army is investigated, as well as the part played by Jews in the communist-dominated regime in Poland after 1944.

Author : Judy Rakowsky
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781728254647

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Jews in the Garden by Judy Rakowsky Pdf

Villages of Poland hide the lost secrets of World War II 1944: Heavy footfalls thud on the road on a rainy May night. A band of gunmen scour a hilltop farm, acting on rumors that it harbors a Jewish family. For 18 months, the Rozeneks have been hiding safely, but their luck is about to run out. Only one from the family of six will live to see the sunrise. Sixteen-year-old Hena Rozenek shelters in the woods until morning... and then she runs. Forty years later: Holocaust survivor Sam Rakowski Ron has lived in the United States for decades, never thinking he could return to the Polish village he fled as a teenager. But now he's ready to talk about what he heard, what he saw, and what he knows about two separate families of cousins who were his neighbors, and presumably were killed during the war. The story Poland presents to the world is that Poles saved more Jews than citizens of any other nation, that any murders in Poland were committed by Nazis and Nazis alone. But Sam, while defending his countrymen, suspects a painful truth. The stories he shares with his younger cousin, Judy, an investigative journalist, send them off on a decades-long journey unlike any other to find out what happened to the Rozenek family and ultimately reveal the secrets the Polish government is still desperate to keep. Jews in the Garden is a globe-trotting detective story that turns investigative eyes and ears toward the hidden events in Poland during the Holocaust. Judy and Sam, the unlikeliest of sleuthing duos, knock on doors, petition court documents, seek clandestine meetings, and ultimately discover what really happened to the "Jews in the garden next door."

Author : Ewa Kurek
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781475938326

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Polish-Jewish Relations 1939-1945 by Ewa Kurek Pdf

The following book was translated and published in English: Ewa Kurek, YOUR LIFE IS WORTH MINE - How Polish Nuns Saved Hundreds of Jewish Children in German-Occupied Poland, foreword by Prof. Jan Karski, New York 1998. She has also contributed articles in English that were published in Polin (Oxford: Institute for Polish Jewish Studies), Embracing the Other (New York University Press) and From Shtetl to Socialism (LondonWashington). Her research on the subject of Polish-Jewish relations in World War II in Poland has been presented at several international academic congresses, including Yad Vashem, Jerusalem (1988), Princeton University (1993), and Columbia University (2007). In the book POLISH-JEWISH RELATIONS 1939-1945; BEYOND THE LIMITS OF SOLIDARITY, Ewa Kurek reconstructs the wartime history based almost exclusively on Jewish sources. Like in her other books, Ewa Kurek has the courage to raise important questions and the courage to search for equally important answers.

Author : Joanna Tokarska-Bakir
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501771507

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Cursed by Joanna Tokarska-Bakir Pdf

In Cursed, Joanna Tokarska-Bakir investigates the July 4, 1946, Kielce pogrom, a milestone in the periodization of the Jewish diaspora. This massacre compelled thousands of Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust to flee postwar Poland. It remains a negative reference point in the Polish historical narrative and represents a lack of reckoning with the role of antisemitism in postwar Polish society and identity politics. Tokarska-Bakir weaves together the voices of the Kielce pogrom survivors, witnesses, and perpetrators with a myriad of other archival sources. Her meticulous research exposes wartime and postwar biographies of local factory workers, city and church officials, local police officers, and members of the security service, some of whom participated in the Holocaust and then directly or indirectly participated in the Kielce pogrom. Tokarska-Bakir paints a social portrait that explores people's behavior in light of forces and emotions greater than themselves. She reconstructs a postwar communist system that, despite promises to combat deeply rooted antisemitism, not only failed to prevent its spread but turned a blind eye to it and eventually used it to legitimize itself. Cursed is a microhistory that recreates the events of the Kielce pogrom step by step and examines the dominant hypotheses about the pogrom through the prism of previously classified archival evidence. It offers readers a nuanced analysis that cuts across social and ideological divisions. The resulting narrative is filled with new discoveries not only about the Kielce pogrom but about the nature of antisemitism, hostility toward minorities, and collective violence. Published in Association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Author : Jan Borowicz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781003833451

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Perverse Memory and the Holocaust by Jan Borowicz Pdf

Perverse Memory and the Holocaust presents a new theoretical approach to the study of Polish memory bystanders of the Holocaust. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, it examines representations of the Holocaust in order to explore the perverse mechanisms of memory at work, in which surface a series of phenomena difficult to remember: the pleasure derived from witnessing scenes of violence, identification with the German perpetrators of violence, the powerful fear of revenge at the hands of Jewish victims, and the adoption of the position of genocide victims. Moving away from the focus of previous psychoanalytic studies of memory on questions of mourning, melancholy, repressed memory, and loss, this volume considers the transformation of the collective identity of those who remained in the space of past Holocaust events: bystanders, who partook in the events and benefited from the extermination of the Jews. A critique of ‘perverse memory’ that hampers attempts to work through what is remembered, this book will be of interest to scholars across the social sciences working in the fields of Holocaust studies, memory studies, psychoanalytic studies, and cultural studies.

Author : Jack Palmer,Dariusz Brzeziński
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000568271

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Revisiting Modernity and the Holocaust by Jack Palmer,Dariusz Brzeziński Pdf

Zygmunt Bauman’s Modernity and the Holocaust is a decisive text of intellectual reflection after Auschwitz, in which Bauman rejected the idea that the Holocaust represented the polar opposite of modernity and saw it instead as its dark potentiality. Bringing together leading scholars from across disciplines, this volume offers the first set of focused and critical commentaries on this classic work of social theory, evaluating its ongoing contribution to scholarship in the social sciences and humanities. Addressing the core messages of Modernity and the Holocaust that continue to sound amidst the convulsions of the present, the chapters situate Bauman’s volume in the social, cultural and academic context of its genesis, and considers its role in the complex processes of Holocaust memorialisation. Offering extensions of Bauman’s thesis to lesser-known and undertheorised events of mass violence, and also considering the significance of Janina Bauman’s writings in their own right, this volume will appeal to scholars of sociology, intellectual history, Holocaust and genocide studies, moral philosophy, memory studies and cultural theory.

Author : Richard C. Lukas
Publisher : Lexington, KY : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081652682

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The Forgotten Holocaust by Richard C. Lukas Pdf

Documents the ethnic, social, and political purges of the Third Reich against a diverse group of people living in Poland between 1939 and 1945.

Author : David Engel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015012118520

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In the Shadow of Auschwitz by David Engel Pdf

In the Shadow of Auschwitz: The Polish Government-in-exile and the Jews, 1939-1942

Author : Joanna B. Michlic
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN : NWU:35556039109368

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Jewish Children in Nazi-occupied Poland by Joanna B. Michlic Pdf

Through an in-depth textual analysis of eyewitness testimonies, the author reconstructs various categories of child survivors and the ways in which they coped with social relations on the Aryan side in Nazi-occupied Poland, using concepts of "performance" pioneered by Goffman. These testimonies bring a new dimension to issues of betrayal and hostility as well as of sacrifice and dedication, creating a broader view of historical representation through pictures of individuals.