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“I’m going to the oven because I didn’t want to give myself up.” Records of the Social Court of the Central Jewish in Poland. An attempt at a gender reading
Ewa Koźmińska-Frejlak
ekozminska@yahoo.com BioPhD., sociologist, researcher at the Jewish Historical Institute. Her research interests include the social history of Jews in Poland after the Holocaust and early Holocaust historiography. Author of texts in this field, editor of sources. She heads the editorial committee of the series "Critical Edition of the Works of the Central Jewish Historical Commission." In 2022, she published the book After the Holocaust. Assimilation Practices of Survivors as Strategies for Settling in Poland (1944/45-1950). She is currently working on a monograph of the Central Jewish Historical Commission.
https://orcid.org/0009-0003-6378-1115
Jewish Historical Institute
Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 19 (2023), pages: 377-407
Publication date: 2023-12-23
Abstract
The primary task of the Social Court of the Central Jewish Committee in Poland was to pass judgement “in cases of misconduct by a member of the Jewish community during the Nazi occupation unbefitting a Jewish citizen, through his participation and harmful activity in the Jewish Councils, the ghetto police, concentration camp administration or other cooperation with the occupying forces to the detriment of society”, according to the rules established by this court. The Social Court was established in September 1946, and operated until 1950. In the text, the author analyzes the files collected in the Citizens’ Tribunal (of the Central Committee of Polish Jews, CKŻP) collection in the Archives of the Jewish Historical Institute, archive no. 313. Their reading, as she tries to demonstrate, reveals to the researcher the insufficiently explored areas of women’s experience of the Holocaust, the boundaries of chich were marked by female physicality and the social roles attributed to women, which were not always directly related to it.
Keywords
social courts, postwar account-settling, Holocaust, women’s experience, immediate postwar period, reconstruction of Jewish life, collaboration through the body, sexual Violence
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