Pogrom Cries - Essays on Polish-Jewish History, 1939-1946

This book reexamines the situation of Jews who after the liquidation of ghettos were hiding in the villages of the Kielce-Sandomierz region, and the attitude of local Christian people and partisans towards these Jews. A fresh perspective is contributed by the author's anthropological approach to the newly discovered field and archival sources.

This book focuses on the fate of Polish Jews and Polish-Jewish relations during the Holocaust and its aftermath, in the ill-recognized era of Eastern-European pogroms after the WW2. It is based on the author's own ethnographic research in those areas of Poland where the Holocaust machinery operated. The results comprise the anthropological interviews with the members of the generation of Holocaust witnesses and the results of her own extensive archive research in the Polish Institute for National Remembrance (IPN).

«[This book] is at times shocking; however, it grips the reader's attention from the first to the last page. It is a remarkable work, set to become a classic among the publications in this field.»

Jerzy Jedlicki, Professor Emeritus at the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Autorentext

Joanna Tokarska-Bakir is a cultural anthropologist and Professor at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences at Warsaw, Poland. She specialises in the anthropology of violence and is the author, among others, of a monograph on blood libel in European perspective and a monograph on the Kielce pogrom.

Inhalt

The Unrighteous Righteous and the Righteous Unrighteous An AL Unit and its Attitude Towards Jews. The Trial of Tadeusz Maj Our Class in Klimontów Sandomierski Ethnographic Findings on the Aftermath of the Holocaust Through Jewish and Polish Eyes The Figure of Bloodsucker Cries of the Mob in the Pogroms in Rzeszów, Cracow and Kielce Communitas of Violence Barabasz and Jews Suppressio veri, suggestio falsi. The History of Ryszard Maj's Testimony