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“The Germans Have Killed Our Jews, So We’re Throwing Out”. The Case of Edward Toniakiewicz
Barbara Engelking
bengelki@ifispan.edu.pl BioBarbara Engelking, psychologist, professor of social sciences; head of the Polish Center for Holocaust Research of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Engelking and Jacek Leociak are scholarly supervisors of the Holocaust gallery in the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. Recently published Such a Beautiful Sunny Day… – Jews Seeking Refuge in the Polish Countryside, 1942–1945 (2016); a new, amended, improved and extended edition of their book Getto warszawskie. Przewodnik po nieistniejącym mieście (2013, together with Jacek Leociak) (English edition: The Warsaw Ghetto: A Guide to the Perished City).
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8361-4427
Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 10 (2014), pages: 626-643
Publication date: 2014-12-01
Abstract
The author is trying to find out how corpses of murdered Jews were hidden in towns during the occupation. She uses the example of the case of Edward Toniakiewicz and three Jews he was hiding in his cellar and whom he then murdered. Afterwards the murderer tried to dump their bodies into a nearby pond. His crime came to light thanks to his neighbour’s curiosity. The investigation was conducted by the Polish blue police, while after the war the documentation was used during Toniakiewicz’s trial. This informative text allows the reader to acquaint himself with various aspects of the fate of Jews hiding on the “Aryan side.”
Keywords
murders of Jews, hiding of bodies, Polish blue police, August decree, court trials, Edward Toniakiewicz
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