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No. Holocaust Studies and Materials (2013)

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1895-247X
eISSN:
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Publication date:
2013-12-02

Section: Studies

Helping Those Doomed to Annihilation as a Source of Destruction – On the Basis of Brandla Siekierkowa’s Personal Documents

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Justyna Kowalska-Leder, lecturer at the Institute of Polish Culture of Warsaw University, head of the Department of History of Culture and of the Polish Jews’ History Research Team of the Institute of Polish Culture of the Warsaw University, author of Doświadczenie Zagłady z perspektywy dziecka w polskiej literaturze dokumentu osobistego (2009), co-author of the lexicon Obyczaje polskie. Wiek XX w krótkich hasłach (2008), and editor of Dziennik Reni Knoll (2013).

Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. Holocaust Studies and Materials (2013), pages: 159-1711

Publication date: 2013-02-20

https://doi.org/10.32927/zzsim.801

Abstract

Brandla Siekierkowa’s occupation-time diary and her 1949 memoir describe experiences, which do not fit the main currents of Polish historical narration. After the liquidation of the Mińsk Mazowiecki ghetto in August 1942 the author, her husband and two sons found shelter in the Żwirówka village on the Bylickis’ farm. Brandla’s testimonies reveal a non-heroic dimension of the long-lasting and disinterested help, which occasioned mutual aversion. They fit neither the “positive” model of narration about the Righteous and the helpees nor the “fringe of the Holocaust” model where the Poles hurt the Jews. Brandla’s notes give us insight into the sphere situated between these two types of narration about the Polish-Jewish past.

 

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Kowalska-Leder, J. . (2013). Helping Those Doomed to Annihilation as a Source of Destruction – On the Basis of Brandla Siekierkowa’s Personal Documents. Zagłada Żydów. Studia I Materiały, (Holocaust Studies and Materials), 159-1711. https://doi.org/10.32927/zzsim.801

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                            View No. Holocaust Studies and Materials (2013)

No. Holocaust Studies and Materials (2013)

ISSN:
1895-247X
eISSN:
2657-3571

Data publikacji:
2013-12-02

Dział: Studies