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“Dangerous adventures and torments”. Relations of two women about how they survived the Holocaust on the territory of Bilgoraj county in the Lublin District
Alina Skibinska
askibinskapl@gmail.com BioAlina Skibińska - historian, graduate of Warsaw University. Since 1996 representative in Poland of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, member of the Polish Centre of Holocaust Research at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, member of the Board of Directors of the Association of the Holocaust Research Center. Author of scholarly publications on the history of Polish Jews, especially the Holocaust, the immediate postwar period and Polish-Jewish relations.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1267-3926
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Polish Centre of Holocaust Research
Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 20 (2024), pages: 447-474
Publication date: 2024-12-17
Abstract
Accounts of two women who survived the occupation period, including the so-called third phase of the Holocaust, in the Biłgoraj county under different conditions and circumstances. Estera Fefer owed her survival primarily to herself and other Jews hiding in the forest, but also to Soviet partisans. Tema Wajnsztok survived thanks to her own determination and the help of numerous villagers with whom she hid, worked and received food. She also experienced the violence that was omnipresent at the time. Both accounts were given and written down at different times, places and by different institutions (in 1946 by the Central Jewish Historical Commission and in 1960 by Yad Vashem), which certainly influenced their narrative. The introduction includes biographical information about both authors and their families. Both texts are of very high factual and emotional value. They are complemented by photographs taken before, during and after the war.
Keywords
postwar testimonies, Aryan side, Biłgoraj county, lubelski district, Puszcza Solska, hiding in the countryside, hiding in the forest, fate of women, postwar testimonies, Aryan side, Bilgoraj county, lubelski district, Puszcza Solska, hiding in the countryside, hiding in the forest, fate of women
References
Źródła archiwalne / Archival sources
Archiwum Państwowe w Kraśniku
Sąd Grodzki w Biłgoraju
Archiwum Państwowe w Zamościu
Prezydium Gromadzkiej Rady Narodowej w Łukowej
Archiwum Yad Vashem
Relacja Aharona Kislowicza, O.3/3082
Relacja Temy Wajnsztok (Tamy Rottmann Weinstock), O.33/635
Archiwum Żydowskiego Instytutu Historycznego
Relacja Estery Fefer, 301/1474
CKŻP, Wydział Ewidencji i Statystyki
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Opracowania / Studies
Skibińska Alina, Powiat biłgorajski [w:] Dalej jest noc. Losy Żydów w wybranych powiatach okupowanej Polski, t. 1, red. Barbara Engelking, Jan Grabowski, Warszawa: Stowarzyszenie Centrum Badan nad Zagładą Żydów, 2018.
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Netografia / Websites
https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/holocaust/0119_Krakow_transports.html
https://cbj.jhi.pl/documents/904209/0/
https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/righteous/search-results/Aniela%20Chmiel?page=1
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