English
Polish
Polish literature on organized and individual help to the Jews (1945–2008)
Dariusz Libionka
libion@wp.pl Biohistorian, 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: Żydzi w powstańczej Warszawie (co-author with Barbara Engelking, 2009)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0180-6463
Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 4 (2008), pages: 17-80
Publication date: 2008-11-02
Abstract
The article deals with the ways of describing the issue of individual and organised help to the Jews in Polish historical discourse during 1945–2008. The author analyses press statements, academic articles, and popular articles and, finally, books published in Poland (including publications by historians from the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw) as well as émigré texts. The article also discusses the source basis used in the texts by Polish authors, their methods of analysis as well as the political conditions of the discourse concerning Polish-Jewish relations during the occupation, identifying the key time limits. Particular attention has been paid to the trends in historical writing in the immediate post-war period, in the mid-1960s (with the anti-Zionist campaign at the fore), in the mid-1980s, and, finally, during 2000–2006. The article discusses all the key publications regarding help to the Jews by: T. Berenstein and Adam Rutkowski, Szymon Datner, Władysław Bartoszewski, Kazimierz Iranek-Osmecki, Teresa Prekerowa, Jan T. Gross and the research and educational activity of the Main Commission to Investigate Nazi Crimes in Poland, the Society of Fighters for Freedom and Democracy (ZBOWiD) and the Institute of National Remembrance
Keywords
German occupation, Polish-Jewish relations, Righteous Among the Nations, help to the Jews
License
Copyright (c) 2008 Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Other articles by the same auhtor(s)
- Jan Grabowski, Dariusz Libionka, Historical Policy Gone Astray. What the Ulma Family Museum of Poles Saving Jews in World War II Fails to Discuss , Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały: No. 12 (2016)
- Dariusz Libionka, Apocrypha from the History of the Jewish Military Union and its Authors , Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały: 2008: Holocaust Studies and Materials
- Dariusz Libionka, Local Structures of the National Armed Forces Vis-a-Vis Jews in Hiding in Light of Postwar Investigative and Trial Materials – the Case of Miechów and Pińczów Counties , Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały: No. 16 (2020)
- Dariusz Libionka, Jan Grabowski, The Anatomy of the Incriminating Letter Regarding Father Tadeusz Puder Sent by Father Stanisław Trzeciak , Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały: No. 13 (2017)
- Dariusz Libionka, Underground Poland’s Attitude Towards Blackmailers and Szmalcowniks in Warsaw. A Picture Corrected , Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały: No. 14 (2018)
- Dariusz Libionka, Entries Regarding Jews in the 1942–1944 Warsaw Police Chronicles , Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały: No. 10 (2014)
- Dariusz Libionka, Persecutors of Jews before the AK Main Command’s Court Martial in 1944 , Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały: No. 15 (2019)
- Dariusz Libionka, Jacek Leociak, 75th Anniversary of Operation Reinhardt , Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały: No. 13 (2017)
- Dariusz Libionka, Polish Church Hierarchy and the Holocaust – A Critical Essay , Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały: No. 5 (2009)
- Anka Grupińska, Dariusz Libionka, 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)
