The Jews of Poland Between Two World Wars

The Jews of Poland Between Two World Wars

Author: Yisrael Gutman

Publisher: Tauber Institute Series for th

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780874515558

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Original essays by distinguished scholars explore Jewish politics, religion, literature, and society in Poland from 1918 to 1939.


On the Edge of Destruction

On the Edge of Destruction

Author: Celia Stopnicka Heller

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780814324943

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The Holocaust virtually destroyed the Jews of Poland, once a community of more than three million, constituting ten percent of the population, and the oldest continuous Jewish community in a European country. On the Edge of Destruction looks at the rich and complex nature of that community and the tremendous pressures under which it lived before the tragic end.


Polish Jews in the Soviet Union (1939–1959)

Polish Jews in the Soviet Union (1939–1959)

Author: Katharina Friedla

Publisher: Academic Studies PRess

Published: 2021-12-14

Total Pages: 453

ISBN-13: 1644697513

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Winner of the 2022 PIASA Anna M. Cienciala Award for the Best Edited Book in Polish StudiesThe majority of Poland’s prewar Jewish population who fled to the interior of the Soviet Union managed to survive World War II and the Holocaust. This collection of original essays tells the story of more than 200,000 Polish Jews who came to a foreign country as war refugees, forced laborers, or political prisoners. This diverse set of experiences is covered by historians, literary and memory scholars, and sociologists who specialize in the field of East European Jewish history and culture.


The Jews in Poland and Russia: A Short History

The Jews in Poland and Russia: A Short History

Author: Antony Polonsky

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2013-09-26

Total Pages: 711

ISBN-13: 1789624835

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A very readable and comprehensive overview that examines the realities of Jewish life while setting them in their political, economic, and social contexts.


Unequal Victims

Unequal Victims

Author: Israel Gutman

Publisher:

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13:

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Denies the claim that Poles and Jews in occupied Poland were in a similar position and that, as a result, the Poles were unable to help the persecuted Jews. Their failure to help the Jews arose from prewar antisemitic attitudes. Many Poles benefited from Jewish abandoned property and the elimination of economic competition, and public satisfaction with German policy was reported by the Delegate's office, the representative of the exiled Polish government. Neither the office nor the Polish underground leadership included Jewish representatives. The Sikorski government in London, more sensitive to Western opinion, included two Jewish representatives and made declarations condemning the mass murder of Jews but gave little material help, partly due to pressure by extremist right-wing groups. Other chapters discuss the Council for Aid to Jews (Żegota), antisemitism in the Anders Army, and antisemitism and pogroms after the liberation.


Three Minutes in Poland

Three Minutes in Poland

Author: Glenn Kurtz

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2014-11-18

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 0374276773

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"The author's search for the annihilated Polish community captured in his grandfather's 1938 home movie. Traveling in Europe in August 1938, one year before the outbreak of World War II, David Kurtz, the author's grandfather, captured three minutes of ordinary life in a small, predominantly Jewish town in Poland on 16 mm Kodachrome color film. More than seventy years later, through the brutal twists of history, these few minutes of home-movie footage would become a memorial to an entire community--an entire culture--that was annihilated in the Holocaust. Three Minutes in Poland traces Glenn Kurtz's remarkable four-year journey to identify the people in his grandfather's haunting images. His search takes him across the United States; to Canada, England, Poland, and Israel; to archives, film preservation laboratories, and an abandoned Luftwaffe airfield. Ultimately, Kurtz locates seven living survivors from this lost town, including an eighty-six-year-old man who appears in the film as a thirteen-year-old boy. Painstakingly assembled from interviews, photographs, documents, and artifacts, Three Minutes in Poland tells the rich, funny, harrowing, and surprisingly intertwined stories of these seven survivors and their Polish hometown. Originally a travel souvenir, David Kurtz's home movie became the sole remaining record of a vibrant town on the brink of catastrophe. From this brief film, Glenn Kurtz creates a riveting exploration of memory, loss, and improbable survival--a monument to a lost world"--


The Road to September 1939

The Road to September 1939

Author: Jehuda Reinharz

Publisher: Brandeis University Press

Published: 2020-03

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 1684580072

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Preface: "The Birds Left Early"--"A Million Superfluous Jews" -- and More -- "The Dream of a Jewish State" -- "The Wailing Wall in Évian" and Kristallnacht -- Funeral March at St. James's Palace: "They Betrayed Czechoslovakia, Why Should They Not Betray Us as Well?" -- A Bridge Over the White Paper? -- The Forgotten Congress (Geneva, August 16-25, 1939) -- Will War Break Out? -- "So early, no one has seen death yet" -- Epilogue


Shelter from the Holocaust

Shelter from the Holocaust

Author: Mark Edele

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Published: 2017-12-04

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 081434268X

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This pioneering volume will interest scholars of eastern European history and Holocaust studies, as well as those with an interest in refugee and migration issues.


After the Holocaust

After the Holocaust

Author: Marek Jan Chodakiewicz

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13:

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Conventional wisdom holds that Jews killed in Poland immediately after World War II were victims of ubiquitous Polish anti-Semitism. This book traces the roots of Polish-Jewish conflict after the war, demonstrating that it was a two-sided phenomenon and not simply an extension of the Holocaust.