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The Fighting and the Propaganda: The Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto from the Perspective of ‘Polish London’
Dariusz Libionka
libion@wp.pl Author BiographyDariusz Libionka, historian, professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, head of the research department of the State Museum at Majdanek. Editor-in-chief of the Holocaust. Studies and Materials annual. Recent publications: Klucze i kasa. O mieniu żydowskim w Polsce pod okupacją niemiecką i we wczesnych latach powojennych 1939– 1950 (2014, co-edited with Jan Grabowski) and Zagłada Żydów w Generalnym Gubernatorstwie. Zarys problematyki (2017).
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0180-6463
Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. Holocaust Studies and Materials (2017), Pages: 11-41
Submission Date: 2020-12-06Publication Date: 2017-12-06
https://doi.org/10.32927/zzsim.708
Abstract
The text talks about the reaction of the Polish government in London to the outbreak of the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto and Szmul Zygielbojm’s suicide. The author analyses stenographic records of the sessions of the Polish government in exile, daily logs of the president’s and PM’s activity, stenographic records of the National Council sessions, correspondence sent by the government to Warsaw, the content of official declarations of the government, and the Polish press between April and June 1943. The author reconstructs the government’s state of knowledge regarding the situation in Warsaw and presents the chronology of its popularisation. He also wonders what influence the-then political crisis (the German propaganda’s revelation of the massacre of Polish officers in Katyń and Stalin’s severance of diplomatic relations with the Polish government) had on the government’s approach to the situation in the occupied country, particularly with regard to the fighting in the Warsaw ghetto.
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