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“I Crossed the Border…” 1940 Testimonies of Refugees from Occupied Poland
Agnieszka Haska
ahaska@ifispan.edu.pl BioThe author presents a little-known collection of testimonies of refugees who fled to Palestine. The testimonies were recorded in 1940 in Tel Aviv by the United Committee for Help to Polish Jews. They were published during the war, from May 1940 to September 1941, in Polish as well as in Hebrew and English. This selection includes testimonies of people who discussed the details of their escape from occupied Poland. The bulletins that include the testimonies are stored at Yad Vashem: fond M.4, Rescue Committee (Vaad Hahatzalah) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, file numbers 219 and 220.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0545-5250
Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy od Sciences
Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 18 (2022), pages: 975-491
Publication date: 2023-03-11
Abstract
The author presents a little-known collection of testimonies of refugees who fled to Palestine. The testimonies were recorded in 1940 in Tel Aviv by the United Committee for Help to Polish Jews. They were published during the war, from May 1940 to September 1941, in Polish as well as in Hebrew and English. This selection includes testimonies of people who discussed the details of their escape from occupied Poland. The bulletins that include the testimonies are stored at Yad Vashem: fond M.4, Rescue Committee (Vaad Hahatzalah) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, file numbers 219 and 220.
Keywords
war testimonies, Jews, escapes from occupied Poland, United Committee of Help to Polish Jews, Mandatory Palestine
References
Archiwum Yad Vashem, M.4 – Rescue Committee (Vaad Hahatzalah) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, sygn. 219 i 220.
German Occupation of Poland: Extract of Note Addressed to the Allied and Neutral Powers,
New York–London: Greystone Press i Wydawnictwo Rój in Exile, 1941.
Stola Dariusz, Nadzieja i Zagłada. Ignacy Schwarzbart – żydowski przedstawiciel w Radzie
Narodowej RP (1940–1945), Warszawa: Oficyna Naukowa, 1995.
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