Jewish Fugitives in the Polish Countryside, 1939–1945

Beyond the German Holocaust Project

Joanna Tokarska-Bakir, Irena Grudzinska-Gross

• Verlag: Peter Lang Group
• Jahr: 2021
• ISBN drucken:
  9783631849279
• eBook-ISBN:
  9783631854211
• Auflage: 1
• Thema: Sozialwissenschaften
• Thema: Osteuropäische Geschichte

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?

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Cover
• Series Information
• Copyright Information
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Irena Grudzińska-Gross: History Persists
• Introduction
• 1. Zofia Nalkowska’s ‘By the Railway Track’. Historical Precedent and Literary Adaptation
• 2. Belk and Other Places. The Story of Decurions-as-Hostages
• 3. The Brother Months: Dirty Warriors’ Testimony
• 4. The Home Army and Peasant Battalions’ Sabotage Teams in the Sandomierz Region. A Supplement to Zelman Baum’s Testimony
• 5. The Righteous of Giebultów. The National Armed Forces in the Battle against the Jews
• 6. ‘When Dawn Breaks.’ Adamów and Malenie, Machory Borough, Opoczno District, June 1944
• 7. The Girl and the Painter. Ostrowiec, 19 March 1945
• 8. Terror in Przedbórz: The Night of May 26, 1945
• 9. Town of K.: Postscript on Gadulski
• 10. Error in Measurement. On Barbara Engelking’s Article ‘The Bielsk County’
• 11. Gewalt Gegen Juden als ‘Wolnica’ (Lizenz zum Töten)
• 12. A Chronic Blunder
• Bibliography
• List of Pictures
• List of Abbreviations
• Index of Names
• Series index