Full Description
The assessment of the Nazi genocide in Poland, an issue which has deeply divided Poles and Jews, lies at the core of this volume. Also included are discussions of Polish attitudes to the nearly 300,000 Jews who tried to resettle in post-war Poland; the little-known testimony of Belzec survivor Rudolf Reder; a discussion of Holocaust victims as martyrs; and a presentation of how the Auschwitz Museum sees its future.
Contents
Note on Names of People and Place-Names Note on Transliteration List of Abbreviations Part 1 The Holocaust and its Aftermath Introduction ANTONY POLONSKY Anti-Jewish Violence in Poland, 1918-1939 and 1945-1947 JOANNA MICHLIC-COREN Jewish Reaction to the Soviet Arrival in the Kresy in September 1939 ANDRZEJ ZBIKOWSKI Reflections on Soviet Documents Relating to Polish Prisoners of War Taken in September 1939 SIMON SCHOCHET The Demography of Jews in Hiding in Warsaw, 1943-1945 GUNNAR S. PAULSSON Psychological Problems of Jews who Used Aryan Documents MARIA EINHORN-SUSULOWSKA My Two Mothers ELZBIETA FICOWSKA Early Swedish Information about the Nazis' Mass Murder of the Jews JOZEF LEWANDOWSKI Jewish Identities in the Holocaust: Martyrdom as a Representative Category JONATHAN WEBBER Three Essays on Jewish Education during the Nazi Occupation MARIAN MALOWIST Two Coffins on Smocza Street and Sliska Street JANUSZ KORCZAK Krzysztof Kamil Baczynski: A Poet Hero JOANNA ROSTROPOWICZ CLARK Paper Epitaphs on a Holocaust Memorial: Zofia Nalkowska's Medallions DIANA KUPREL Letter to Father JAN RYSZARD BYCHOWSKI Stereotypes of Polish-Jewish Relations after the War: The Special Commission of the Central Committee of Polish Jews JAN GROSS The Bund and the Jewish Fraction of the Polish Workers' Party in Poland after 1945 BOZENA SZAYNOK Whose Nation, Whose State? Working-Class Nationalism and Antisemitism in Poland, 1945-1947 PADRAIC KENNEY Poles and Jews in the Kielce Region and Radom, April 1945-February 1946 ADAM PENKALLA Polish Jews during and after the Kielce Pogrom: Reports from the Communist Archives JOANNA MICHLIC-COREN Belzec RUDOLF REDER, with a translator's note by M. M. RUBEL The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum: From Commemoration to Education TERESA SWIEBOCKA Part II A Debate about Antisemitism in Poland Today Black is Black STANISLAW MUSIAL A Rainbow in Black WALDEMAR CHROSTOWSKI The Sin of Antisemitism: A Response to Waldemar Chrostowski STANISLAW MUSIAL Difficult Remarks to Write STANISLAW KRAJEWSKI A Shadow over the Dialogue MONIKA ADAMCZYK-GARBOWSKA Part III An Interview Marian Malowist on History and Historians Part IV New Views The Day after the Pogrom: A Documentary Account JOZEF BEKKER Jewish Theatre in Poland before the Second World War: Its Audiences and its Critics MAYA PERETZ Forbidden Fruit: Illicit Love Affairs between Jews and Gentiles in the Novels of Julian Stryjkowski REGINA GROL Ludwik Rajchman: A Biographical Sketch of a Polish Jew MARTA ALEKSANDRA BALINSKA Abraham Joshua Heschel in Poland: Hasidism Enters Modernity EDWARD K. KAPLAN Part V Reviews REVIEW ESSAYS Recent Books on the Catholic Church in Poland JOHN T. PAWLIKOWSKI 'You shall not bear false witness': Stanislaw C. Napiorkowski (ed.), A blizniego swego ... Materialy z sympozjum 'Sw. Maksymilian Kolbe-Zydzi- masoni JERZY TOMASZEWSKI A Lithuanian Account of Life in the Camps: Balys Sruoga, Forest of the Gods: Memoirs NERIJUS UDRENAS Analyses of World Antisemitism Published between 1991 and 1997 ALINA CALA BOOK REVIEWS OBITUARY Correspondence Notes on contributors Glossary Index
