Holocaust History, Holocaust Memory

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.

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

Part 1: Introduction and Overview Introduction 1. Jews in Twentieth Century Poland Part 2: Studies of Wartime 2. The Capacity of the Tzadik in the Late 1930s in Poland According to the "Akedat Yitzchak" Book 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 4. "Maybe the Afterlife Will Be Better"- Letters from W odawa County During the Holocaust 5. Jews From Markowa: Life, War, and the Struggle to Survive 6. Josef Bürger - the Executioner of the Jews in uków 7. Jewish Initiatives of Rescue by Means of Labor and Jewish Self-Help in the Face of Aktion Reinhardt 8. February 1943 in the Biäystok Ghetto: The Writings of Mordechai Tenenbaum-Tamaroff Part 3: Postwar Jewish Life, Historiography, Commemoration, and Representation 9. Holocaust Monuments in Poland: Forms, Meanings, and Messages 10. Passports From Switzerland: How History Becomes Politics 11. My Love Affair With Jewish History: From Small Town to Source of Identity 12. In Search of the Victims' Agenda: German Scholarship on Polish Jews During the Holocaust 13. March 1968 - The Last Chapter in the History of Polish Jews - Reflection and Representation of the Events of March 1968 in Polish Films 14. Two Jewish Traitors from Ostrowiec: The Zeyfman Brothers 15. "Windows of Memory. The Jewish Community of Bochnia" - Exhibition Organised by the Stanis aw Fischer Museum in Bochnia 16. 21st Century Polish Literature and the Shoah: The Struggle for the Memory Part 4: Family History, Family Memory 17. In Search of the Lost Tydors: An Exercise in Holocaust Documentation 18. "My Parents Left Poland, but Poland Didn't Leave Them": History and Personal Memory 19. Dis-location: Past - Present - Future in a Changing Silesian Town 20. My Jewish Kraków 21. Following My Roots: Building the Unknown Puzzle of My Family Roots in Poland 22. Can I Be a Good Historian?