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“We are competely dependent on them...” – relations between the helpers and the hiding as exemplified by Fela Fischbein’s diary
Barbara Engelking
bengelki@ifispan.pl Biopsychologist, assistant professor in the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, head of the Polish Centre for Holocaust Research of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Publications include:.Holocaust and memory (2001, Polish edition 1994), Warsaw Ghetto. The Guide through the Perished City (co-author with Jacek Leociak, forthcoming 2009, Polish edition 2001), Szanowny panie Gistapo…Donosy do władz niemieckich w Warszawie w latach 1940–1941 (2005).
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8361-4427
Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 4 (2008), pages: 144-169
Publication date: 2008-11-02
Abstract
The text is an analysis of the relations between a hiding Jewess, Fela Fischbein, and her landlady, a Polish woman, Katarzyna Dunajewska. In hiding, Fela wrote her diary, which was the basis for the description of her feelings, experiences, her perception of the Poles who helped her, and her change of attitude toward them. The hiding Jewess moves from gratitude to the Poles to disappointment and aversion, which is caused by the attitude of the Poles to the Jews who needed help: financial exploitation of their situation and denouncing them to the Germans.
Keywords
Jews, the Holocaust, hiding, help, Polish-Jewish relations
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