1st Edition

Holocaust History, Holocaust Memory Jewish Poland and Polish Jews, During and After the Holocaust

Edited By Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz, Lea Ganor Copyright 2024
260 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

260 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

260 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This volume is both a study of the history of Polish Jews and Jewish Poland before, during, and immediately after the Holocaust and a collection of personal explorations focusing on the historians who write about these subjects. While the first three parts of the book focus on "text," the broad nature of Polish Jewish history surrounding the Holocaust, the last section focuses on subtext, the... Read more

Part 1: Introduction and Overview

Introduction 

Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz and Lea Ganor

1. Jews in Twentieth Century Poland

Eli Tzur

Part 2: Studies of Wartime

2. The Capacity of the Tzadik in the Late 1930s in Poland According to the "Akedat Yitzchak" Book  

Lior Alperovitch

3. “I'm Being Punished Despite My Complete Innocence!”: Soviet Secret Police (NKVD) Meets Holocaust Refugees from the German-Occupied Part of Poland, 1939-1941

Yaacov Falkov

4. "Maybe the Afterlife Will Be Better"- Letters from Włodawa County During the Holocaust

Eliyahu Klein

5. Jews From Markowa: Life, War, and the Struggle to Survive

Kamil Kopera

6. Josef Bürger – the Executioner of the Jews in Łuków

Krzysztof Czubaszek

7. Jewish Initiatives of Rescue by Means of Labor and Jewish Self-Help in the Face of Aktion Reinhardt

Witold Mędykowski

8. February 1943 in the Białystok Ghetto: The Writings of Mordechai Tenenbaum-Tamaroff

Weronika Romanik

Part 3: Postwar Jewish Life, Historiography, Commemoration, and Representation

9. Holocaust Monuments in Poland: Forms, Meanings, and Messages

Batya Brutin

10. Passports From Switzerland: How History Becomes Politics

Agnieszka Haska

11. My Love Affair With Jewish History: From Small Town to Source of Identity

Grzegorz Krzywiec

12. In Search of the Victims’ Agenda: German Scholarship on Polish Jews During the Holocaust

Stephan Lehnstaedt

13. March 1968 - The Last Chapter in the History of Polish Jews - Reflection and Representation of the Events of March 1968 in Polish Films

Hanna Oren

14. Two Jewish Traitors from Ostrowiec: The Zeyfman Brothers

Rivka Chaya Schiller

15. “Windows of Memory. The Jewish Community of Bochnia” – Exhibition Organised by the Stanisław Fischer Museum in Bochnia

Iwona Zawidzka

16. 21st Century Polish Literature and the Shoah: The Struggle for the Memory

Sławomir Jacek Żurek

Part 4: Family History, Family Memory

17. In Search of the Lost Tydors: An Exercise in Holocaust Documentation

Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz

18. "My Parents Left Poland, but Poland Didn't Leave Them":  History and Personal Memory

Lea Ganor

19. Dis-location: Past - Present – Future in a Changing Silesian Town

Ruth Wyel Geall

20. My Jewish Kraków

Michał Niezabitowski

21. Following My Roots: Building the Unknown Puzzle of My Family Roots in Poland

Inbal Raz

22. Can I Be a Good Historian?

Ewa Wiatr

Biography

Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz is the director of the Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research and Professor of Modern Jewish History at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. She has written and edited numerous publications about gender, Holocaust, memory, commemoration, Israel, and descendants of Holocaust survivors.

Lea Ganor is the founder and Director of the Mashmaut Center in Kiryat Motzkin and Senior Scholar/Coordinator of the Poland Forum, Bar-Ilan University. Her research focuses on the IDF and the Holocaust. She received the Night Cross Order of Merit from the president of Poland for fostering Polish-Israeli dialogue.