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Interview with Józef Grynblatt, member of the Betar and the Jewish Military Union (ŻZW) during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Anka Grupińska
ankagru@medianet.pl Author BiographyPolska publicystka, dziennikarka, pisarka, dziennikarka, reportażystka, współautorka wystaw, autorka i koordynatorka projektów historii mówionej. Ukończyła filologię angielską na Uniwersytecie im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu. W latach 80 XX w. współpracowała z pismami podziemnymi (Czas Kultury, Czas). W okresie 1991-1993 pracowała w Ataszacie kulturalnym Ambasady RP w Tel Awiwie. Opublikowała m.in. Po kole. Rozmowy z żydowskimi żołnierzami (Wydawnictwa „Alfa”, Warszawa, 1991 r., ISBN 83-7001-475-5); Najtrudniej jest spotkać Lilit: Opowieści chasydek („Twój Styl”, Warszawa, 1999 r.); Ciągle po kole: rozmowy z żołnierzami Getta Warszawskiego („Twój Styl”, Warszawa, 2000 r., ISBN 83-7163-187-1); Odczytanie listy: opowieści o powstańcach żydowskich (Wyd. Literackie, Kraków, 2003 r., ISBN 83-08-03314-8); Das Warschauer Getto II. Ghetto di Varsavia. Getto Warszawskie. Wersja niemiecko-włoska, autorzy: Anka Grupińska, Paweł Szapiro i inni (Wyd. Parma Press 2006) ISBN 83-89157-55-1; Buntownicy. Polskie lata 70. i 80., autorki: Anka Grupińska, Joanna Wawrzyniak (Świat Książki); 12 opowieści żydowskich (Wyd. Czarne, 2013)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4642-3493
Dariusz Libionka
libion@wp.pl Author Biographyhistorian, lecturer at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, head of the research department of the State Museum at Majdanek. Member of the Polish Centre for Holocaust Research of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Recent publications: ZWZ-AK i Delegatura Rządu RP wobec eksterminacji Żydów Polskich, in: Polacy i Żydzi pod okupacją niemiecką 1939–1945, ed., A. Żbikowski, Warsaw 2006, p. 15–207.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0180-6463
Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 3 (2007), Pages: 317-335
Submission Date: 2020-10-14Publication Date: 2007-12-01
https://doi.org/10.32927/ZZSiM.241
Abstract
This interview by the journalist Anka Grupińska, who, for a number of years, has documented the history of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising with Józef Grynblatt, one of the few surviving members of the Jewish Military Union (ŻZW), took place in 1990 in Warsaw. This is the first Grynblatt's testimony published in Poland. Many publications on the ŻZW do not even mention him. Józef Grynblatt talks about the formation and the functioning of the ŻZW (Jewish Military Union), his participation in the uprising and his post-war life. Grynblatt fought in the Polish-German War in 1939; when he returned from German captivity he got involved in the underground, took part in the April uprising in a group of fighters at Karmelicka Street No. 5, escaped with a group of fighters through the sewers at the end of April 1943 and reached Michalin. Then he was hiding in Warsaw. He left Poland in 1946 and emigrated to the USA. Grynblatt’s replies are commented upon in the footnotes by Dariusz Libionka, a historian who deals with the history of the fighting organisation of Zionists-Revisionists. Libionka identifies numerous contradictions between Grynblatt’s confessions to Grupińska and his previous testimonies (given in 1958 and 1974) as well as discrepancies between his story and other ŻZW members’ accounts
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Warsaw Ghetto , Warsaw Ghetto Uprising , Jewish Military Union , Betar , Zionists-Revisionists
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