Interview with Józef Grynblatt, member of the Betar and the Jewish Military Union (ŻZW) during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 3 (2007), pages: 317-335
Publication date: 2007-12-01
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
Keywords
Warsaw Ghetto, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Jewish Military Union, Betar, Zionists-Revisionists
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