1st Edition
Witnesses Life in Occupied Kraków
1.The Beginning of the Road 2. On the Kraków-Tarnów-Lwów Line 3. We Bore Witness 4. Some of Our Clients 5. Fugitives from the Janowski Camp 6. Council for Jewish Aid (‘Źegota’) in Kraków: First Steps 7. I Did Not Keep a Diary…Scraps of Memories 8. New Contacts – New Methods 9. Parting 10. Janka’s Wanderings, Wanda and Jadwiga 11. The Refugee From Auschwitz 12. The Story of a Cellar 13. Contacts with Warsaw 14. For Whom the Bells of Victory Tolled.
Biography
Miriam Peleg-Mariańska (1913–1996), a Polish Jewess, collected evidence of the experiences of children under Nazi persecution and was a founding member of the Jewish Historical Commission. She worked for the underground Polish Socialist Party and for Żegota, the Council for Aid to the Jews of the underground Homeland army. After the war, Hochberg-Mariańska was the head of the Child Care Department at the Provincial Committee of Jews in Kraków until 1948. She settled in Israel in 1949 and worked at Yad Vashem for twenty years.
Mordecai Peleg died in 1986.Â
Original Review of Witnesses:
‘The book is an important testimony about its authors lives as Jews ‘passing for Poles’ during the German occupation of Poland as well as about their work on behalf of Źegota…But on the whole the volume provides yet another reminder of the widespread indifference of the population in the midst of which the mass murder of the Jews was carried out by the Nazis.’ Jan T. Gross, Slavic Review, Volume 53, No. 1 (1994).
