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“This is what the Deputy Elder of the Jewish Community Jakubowicz could have said about it.” Legal proceedings against Aron “Arek” Jakubowicz
Monika Polit
monika.polit@interia.pl Author BiographyMonika Polit - PhD, literary scholar. She teaches Yiddish language and literature at the Department of Jewish History and Culture at the Faculty of History of the University of Warsaw. Author of numerous translations from Yiddish and studies of scholarly editions of sources. She has published, among others: Encyclopedia of the Ghetto. The Unfinished Project of the Lodz Ghetto Archivists (2014, compiled. with Krystyna Radziszewska, Ewa Wiatr, Adam Sitarek, and Jacek Walicki); The Writings of Peretz Opoczynski (Ringelblum Archive, vol. 31, 2017); Jozef Zelkowicz, “The writer of these words is an employee of a ghetto institution.... “From the Diary” and Other Writings from the Lodz Ghetto (2019), The Ringelblum Archive: Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto, vol. 7 (2022, compiled with Eleonora Bergman and Ewa Wiatr).
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5738-0898
History Department, University of Warsaw
Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 20 (2024), Pages: 615-630
Submission Date: 2024-09-01Publication Date: 2024-12-17
https://doi.org/10.32927/zzsim.1079
Abstract
The subject of this article is an analysis of the documents of the court proceedings against Aron “Arek” Jakubowicz, suspected of a crime under Article 1 of the PKWN Decree of August 31, 1944. The head of the Central Bureau of Labor Ministries in the Litzmannstadt Ghetto was arrested in Lodz in November 1945, and after considering the evidence gathered, was released in December of that year. The charges against him were deemed unfounded, motivated only by personal animosities. The picture emerging from official documents has been supplemented with information from testimonies, written and oral accounts of Lodz Ghetto survivors who came into contact with Jakubowicz or with whom he had closer ties, whether social or family (the case of Bernard Fuchs). The article also refers to materials from the family archive, not available to outsiders, which are now in the custody of Jakubowicz’s grandchildren
Keywords
Aron Jakubowicz , Hans Biebow , Dora Fuchs , Bernard Fuchs (Fleming) , Lodz ghetto , collaboration , August decree
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