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“Why did they who had suffered and endured so much have to die?” Jewish Victims of Armed Violence in the Polish Tatra Highlands during 1945–1947
Karolina Panz
karolina.panz@gmail.com Biodoctoral student at the Institute of Social Applied Studies, Warsaw University. Her p.hD. dissertations (in progress under the supervision of prof. Małgorzata Melchior) deals with the fate of Jews in Polish Tatra Highlands (Podhale) during the Holocaust. in 2013 she was awarded a research stipend for young scholars by Polish Center for Holocaust Research.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2019-7624
Institute of Social Applied Studies, Warsaw University
Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 11 (2015), pages: 33-89
Publication date: 2015-12-01
Abstract
This article discusses the armed anti-Jewish violence and the events connected with it, which occurred in the Polish Tatra Highlands (southern Poland) during 1945–1947. The number of Jewish victims exceeded 30, including children from Jewish orphanages. Among the perpetrators of those acts of terror were partisans from the group commanded by Józef Kuraś ‘Ogień’, which is one of the most important symbols of the anti-communist resistance. This article is based on results of a few years’ research and highly diverse sources and its main purpose is to recreate those events, with particular attention given to the victims of those acts of violence.
Keywords
post-war period, Polish Tatra Highlands (Podhale), anti-Jewish violence, murders of Jews, Jewish orphanages, anti-communist partisans, Józef Kuraś ‘Ogień’
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