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No. 7 (2011)

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1895-247X
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Publication date:
2011-12-02

Section: Studies

“Barabasz” and the Jews. From the History of the “Wybraniecki” Detachment

Alina Skibinska

askibinskapl@gmail.com

Alina Skibińska, historian, Polish representative of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C., works in the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, International Archival Programs Division of the Museum. Recent publications: “Jakie to ma znaczenie, czy zrobili to z chciwości?” Zagłada domu Trynczerów (Tadeusz Markiel’s memoir, supplemented with her historical study, 2011), and Archiwum Ringelbluma. Konspiracyjne Archiwum Getta Warszawy, vol. 13: Ostatnim etapem przesiedlenia jest śmierć. Pomiechówek, Chełmno nad Nerem, Treblinka (co-edited with Barbara Engelking and Ewa Wiatr, 2013).

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1267-3926

Polish Center for Holocaust Research

Joanna Tokarska-Bakir

j.tokarska-bakir@uw.edu.pl

cultural anthropologist, professor at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences and at the Institute of Applied Social Sciences of Warsaw University, and head of the Ethnographic Archive of the Institute of Applied Social Sciences of Warsaw University. Research interests: ethnographic research on Polish provincial memory of the Holocaust and visuality in applied social sciences. Recent publication: Okrzyki pogromowe. Szkice z antropologii historycznej Polski lat 1939–1946 (2012).

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4778-0465

Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 7 (2011), pages: 63-122

Publication date: 2011-12-10

https://doi.org/10.32927/zzsim.778

Abstract

The article demonstrates hitherto undescribed events from the history of the Home Army partisan detachment “Wybraniecki”, which was famous in the Kielce region. It was under command of the legendary Marian Sołtysiak (nom de guerre “Barabasz”), who was at the same time the commanding officer of the Kielce Home Army Sabotage Directorate [Kedyw]. Initially, the detachment was a seven-person strong sabotage group. In June 1943 it already had a few dozen members and was quartered in a forest camp. In spring 1944 it was transformed into a partisan detachment, which belonged to the 4th Infantry Regiment of the Home Army Legions and which participated in the Tempest Operation. The events described in the article took place between the fall of 1943 and spring of 1944, when the detachment’s squads quartered in a few separate places and met from time to time during the concentrations ordered by the commandant. At that time some Jews in hiding were murdered. Among those shot were: the group kept in hiding by the Pole Stefan Sawa (posthumously decorated with the Righteous among the Nations medal) in a cottage near Daleszyce, Michał Ferenc – Zajączków commune clerk, Roman Olizarowski “Pomsta” – a “Wybraniecki” detachment soldier, who was liquidated after the discovery of his Jewish origin, Izaak Grynbaum from Chęciny and about three Jews hiding in bunkers near Mosty. After the war the following people stood trial: Edward Skrobot, Józef Molenda, Władysław Dziewiór, Mieczysław Szumielewicz and Marian Sołtysiak. The authors reconstruct the facts of those executions, discuss the motivations of the perpetrators and analyze them against the background of the functioning of the underground judiciary, and call into question the validity of some of its sentences. They also discuss the methods and line of defense of the accused ex-partisans.

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Skibinska, A. ., & Tokarska-Bakir, J. . (2011). “Barabasz” and the Jews. From the History of the “Wybraniecki” Detachment. Zagłada Żydów. Studia I Materiały, (7), 63-122. https://doi.org/10.32927/zzsim.778

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                            View No. 7 (2011)

No. 7 (2011)

ISSN:
1895-247X
eISSN:
2657-3571

Data publikacji:
2011-12-02

Dział: Studies