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Polish Literature on Organized and Individual Help to the Jews (1945–2008)
Polish Center for Holocaust Research of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences
libion@wp.pl Author Biographyhistorian, assistant professor at IFIS PAN, head of the research department at the State Museum at Majdanek. His most recent publication is: ZWZ-AK and the Delegation of the Polish Government-in-Exile on the extermination of Polish Jews, (in:) Poles and Jews under German Occupation 1939-1945, ed. A. Żbikowski, Warsaw 2006 (Hebrew translation: "Dapim. Studies on the Shoah," 2008, vol. 22).
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0180-6463
Centrum Badań nad Zagładą Żydów IFiS PAN
Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 4 (2008), Pages: 17-80
Submission Date: 2025-10-31Publication Date: 2008-11-02
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The article deals with the ways of describing the issue of individual and organised help to the Jews in Polish historical discourse during 1945–2008. The author analyses press statements, academic articles, and popular articles and, finally, books published in Poland (including publications by historians from the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw) as well as émigré texts. The article also discusses the source basis used in the texts by Polish authors, their methods of analysis as well as the political conditions of the discourse concerning Polish-Jewish relations during the occupation, identifying the key time limits. Particular attention has been paid to the trends in historical writing in the immediate post-war period, in the mid-1960s (with the anti-Zionist campaign at the fore), in the mid-1980s, and, finally, during 2000–2006. The article discusses all the key publications regarding help to the Jews by: T. Berenstein and Adam Rutkowski, Szymon Datner, Władysław Bartoszewski, Kazimierz Iranek-Osmecki, Teresa Prekerowa, Jan T. Gross and the research and educational activity of the Main Commission to Investigate Nazi Crimes in Poland, the Society of Fighters for Freedom and Democracy (ZBOWiD) and the Institute of National Remembrance
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