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I don’t want to expose myself to people’s laughter for hiding Jews in my place . . . the case of Zdzisław and Halina Krzyczkowski)
Jacek Leociak
jleociak@gmail.com Author Biographylecturer in the Institute of Literary Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, head of the Holocaust Literature Studies Department of the Institute, member of the Polish Centre for Holocaust Research of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Recent works: (co-author with Barbara Engelking), The Warsaw Getto. A Guide to the Perished City (2009, Polish edition 2001), Doświadczenia graniczne. Studia o dwudziestowiecznych formach reprezentacji (2009), Ratowanie. Opowieści Polaków i Żydów, (2010)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1471-6926
Institite of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 4 (2008), Pages: 324-366
Submission Date: 2020-10-15Publication Date: 2008-11-02
https://doi.org/10.32927/ZZSiM.276
Abstract
On 25 May 1988 the Commission for the Designation of the Righteous of the Yad Vashem Institute decided to award Zdzisław and Halina Krzyczkowski the medal Righteous Among the Nations on the application of Marian Berland, who was hiding, together with four people, at the Krzyczkowskis’ place during the occupation. In his letter he wrote that “never throughout the entire period did they give us reasons to fear that they would denounce us or throw us out on the street. We survived that horrible time only thanks to them and their help.” However, Berland’s notes written in hiding reveal a totally different picture; the Krzyczkowskis are a couple of lumpenproletarians from Sienna Street, who constantly cheat and blackmail the Jews they are hiding.
Keywords
Holocaust , Jews-Poles 1939-1945 , Righteous Among the Nations
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