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“I Did not Demand any Payment for the Aforementioned Memoirs.” How Władysław Wójcik Rescued Chaim Aron Kapłan’s Diary and the Ringelblum Archive

Jacek Leociak

jleociak@gmail.com

full professor in Institite of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, member of the Polish Center for Holocaust Research , editor of „Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały/Holocaust Studies and Materials”. Togehther with Barbara Engelking scholarly curator of the Holocaust Galleri in Museum of the History Polish Jews POLIN ina Warsaw. Recenlty he published, a.o.  Getto warszawskie. Przewodnik po nieistniejącym mieście (ed. 2, 2013, with Barbara Engelking), Tekst wobec Zagłady. O relacjach z getta warszawskiego (ed. 2 2016), Biografie ulic. O ulicach Warszawy od narodzin po Zagładę (2017), Młyny boże. zapiski o Kościele i Zagładzie (2018).

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1471-6926

Institite of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 13 (2017), pages: 512-598

Publication date: 2017-12-03

https://doi.org/10.32927/ZZSiM.368

Abstract

The materials presented above include a file with the correspondence between Władysław Wójcik and the director of the Jewish Historical Institute Bernard Mark, located in the institute’s archive, as well as fragments of Wójcik’s memoir from the Yad Vashem Archives. In all of Wójcik’s writings, there is a discrepancy between the declared unselfishness, and ingratitude he had been experiencing after the war from the Jews. His claims relate, on one hand, to the lack of compensation from the mother of a girl, whom he helped to hide during the occupation, and on the other, from the JHI’s – due to his role in discovery and saving the second part of the Ringelblum Archive and Chaim Aron Kapłan’s Diary. The motive for his efforts to obtain payment are Wójcik’s financial problems after he emigrated to the USA.

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Leociak, J. (2017). “I Did not Demand any Payment for the Aforementioned Memoirs.” How Władysław Wójcik Rescued Chaim Aron Kapłan’s Diary and the Ringelblum Archive. Zagłada Żydów. Studia I Materiały, (13), 512-598. https://doi.org/10.32927/ZZSiM.368

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No. 13 (2017)

ISSN:
1895-247X
eISSN:
2657-3571

Data publikacji:
2017-11-26

Dział: Materials