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“Why did they, who had suffered so much and endured, had to die?” The Jewish victims of armed violence in Podhale (1945–1947)
Karolina Panz
karolina.panz@gmail.com BioKarolina Panz, doctoral student at the Institute of Applied Social Sciences of the Warsaw University. Her doctoral dissertation, written under Professor Małgorzata Melchior’ supervision, regards the lot of the Jewish population of Nowy Targ during the Holocaust. In 2013 granted research scholarship for young scholars by the Polish Center for Holocaust Research. In 2016 received the Israel Gutman Award for the best 2015 article devoted to the subject matter of the Holocaust (“‘Why Did They, Who Had Suffered So Much and Endured, Have to Die?’: The Jewish Victims of Armed Violence in Podhale, 1945–1947”).
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2019-7624
Institute of Social Applied Studies, Warsaw University
Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. Holocaust Studies and Materials (2017), pages: 148-211
Publication date: 2017-12-06
Abstract
This article discusses the armed anti-Jewish violence and the events connected with it, which occurred in the Polish Tatra Highlands (southern Poland) during1945–1947. The number of Jewish victims exceeded thirty, including children from Jewish orphanages. Among the perpetrators of those acts of terror were partisans from the group commanded by Józef Kuraś ‘Ogień’ – one of the most important symbols of anti-communist resistance. This article is a results of several years of research and is based on highly diverse sources. 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 Podhale, anti-Jewish violence, murders of Jews, Jewish orphanages, anti-communist partisans, Józef ‘Ogień’ Kuraś
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