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Saving Jews for money – the help industry
Jan Grabowski
grabows@uottawa.ca Bioprofessor of history at the University of Ottawa, member of the Polish Center for Holocaust Research of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. His publications include “Ja tego Żyda znam!” Szantażowanie Żydów w Warszawie, 1939-43 (2004, French eddition 2008)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6916-9379
University of Ottawa
Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 4 (2008), pages: 81-109
Publication date: 2008-11-02
Abstract
There is a consensus among Polish historians that helping the Jews under the occupation was a wide-spread phenomenon. Indeed, while some Poles helped the Jews on humanitarian grounds, many others considered it a very risky, but also a very profitable enterprise. In historical literature, these people are referred to as “paid helpers”. This text, based upon primary sources such as war-time court records, war-time diaries, early post-war Jewish narratives, and the post-1945 “August” trials, seeks to shed light on the scale of the phenomenon of paid help, as well as on the quality of help offered under these circumstances. It also offers an analysis of relationships between the Jews and their paid helpers
Keywords
rescue, paid helpers, Polish-Jewish relations, Holocaust, collaboration
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