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“A Spiritual Candle Is Burning Inside Me.” Rabbi Josef Guzik and his Diary
Ewa Wiatr
ewa.wiatr@uni.lodz.pl BioEwa Wiatr is a lecturer at the Center for Jewish Research at the University of Łódź. Her research interest includes the history of the Jewish diaspora in the city of Łódź and the region during World War II and the Holocaust. Co-editor and editor of many sources, among others: Chronicle Litzmannstadt Ghetto, 1941-1944, Encyclopedia of the Ghetto: An Unfinished Project of Archivists from the Łódź Ghetto, and the series Judaica of Łódź. She independently edited the Diary from the Łódź Ghetto: Rywka Lipszyc (in Polish, 2017, “Polityka” historical award in 2018), and in cooperation with Adam Sitek, the diary of Dawid Sierakowiak (2016, in Polish) and Henek Fogel (2019, in Polish). Her monography on everyday life in the Łódź ghetto, which is an extended version of her PhD dissertation, is being edited to be published. She belongs to a team working on the Lexicon of the Łódź Ghetto, a project implemented as part of the National Program for the Development of Humanities.
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2675-0726
Uniwersytet Łódzki, Centrum Badań Żydowskich
Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 15 (2019), pages: 305-319
Publication date: 2019-12-20
Abstract
In the autumn of 1941 approx. 20,000 Jews were deported to the Łódź ghetto from the Reich and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Among them were highly assimilated individuals, including converts. A large group of Catholics arrived from Vienna and this text is devoted to them. A letter addressed to the Center for Aid to Non-Aryan Catholics, which operated at the Archbishopric of Vienna, became an impulse for writing this article. The Viennese Catholics concentrated around Regina Fuhrman, a member of the Carmelite secular order, and they established the Catholic Community. The Jewish administration of the ghetto allocated a prayer room to be used by all Christians in the ghetto. The Christians were deported to the death center in Chełmno nad Nerem on 9 May 1942 within the framework of a large-scale deportation campaign which encompassed unemployed Western-European Jews. Many of them volunteered to leave, maintaining family or religious ties.
Keywords
Łódź ghetto, deportations from Western Europe, converts, Holocaust, aid to ‘non-Aryan Catholics
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Archiwum Państwowe w Łodzi (AP Łódź) zespół Przełożonego Starszeństwa Żydów
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