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Abandoned libraries in the Warsaw ghetto 1942–1944. German librarians’ plans

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Mężyński A., Kisilowska-Szurmińska M.

Z Badań nad Książką i Księgozbiorami Historycznymi

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2025

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vol. 19

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issue 1

57-67

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At its peak, approximately 450,000 people lived in the Warsaw Ghetto (1940–1943). Many of them had home libraries. There were also bookshops, public lending libraries, and a thriving street trade in antiquarian books. All of these books remained in the ghetto after their owners were deported to extermination camps, and eventually, after the ghetto uprising, the number of these volumes is estimated to be around 500,000. The German librarian, Wilhelm Witte, commissary manager of three of Warsaw’s most significant libraries, offered to the ghetto authorities to collect and store the abandoned books in the former Main Judaic Library building on Tłomackie Street. However, this turned out to be an unrealistic request, as the SS had seized all remaining Jewish possessions as well as the Library building and denied Witte any access to these books. Thus, the books of the ghetto’s inhabitants were destroyed in the ghetto’s ruins.

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Opuszczone biblioteki w getcie warszawskim 1942–1944. Plany niemieckich bibliotekarzy

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Mężyński A.

Z Badań nad Książką i Księgozbiorami Historycznymi

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2025

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vol. 19

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issue 1

45-55

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At its peak, approximately 450,000 people lived in the Warsaw Ghetto (1940–1943). Many of them had home libraries. There were also bookshops, public lending libraries, and a thriving street trade in antiquarian books. All of these books remained in the ghetto after their owners were deported to extermination camps, and eventually, after the ghetto uprising, the number of these volumes is estimated to be around 500,000. The German librarian, Wilhelm Witte, commissary manager of three of Warsaw’s most significant libraries, offered to the ghetto authorities to collect and store the abandoned books in the former Main Judaic Library building on Tłomackie Street. However, this turned out to be an unrealistic request, as the SS had seized all remaining Jewish possessions as well as the Library building and denied Witte any access to these books. Thus, the books of the ghetto’s inhabitants were destroyed in the ghetto’s ruins.

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W getcie warszawskim (1940-1943) w szczytowym momencie żyło ok. 450 tys. ludzi. Wielu z nich posiadało biblioteki domowe. Działały również księgarnie i wypożyczalnie publiczne, oprócz tego kwitł uliczny handel antykwaryczny. Wszystkie te książki pozostały na terenie getta po wywózce ich właścicieli do obozów zagłady i – ostatecznie – po powstaniu w getcie, liczbę tych woluminów szacuje się na ok. 500 tys. Niemiecki bibliotekarz Wilhelm Witte, komisaryczny kierownik trzech największych bibliotek warszawskich, zaproponował władzom getta, iż pozbiera porzucone książki i przechowa je w budynku byłej Głównej Biblioteki Judaistycznej przy ul. Tłomackie. Okazało się to jednak prośbą nierealną, gdyż SS przejęło wszelkie pozostałe dobra żydowskie, jak również budynek Biblioteki i odmówiło Wittemu jakiegokolwiek dostępu do tych książek. W ten sposób książki mieszkańców getta uległy całkowitemu zniszczeniu w jego ruinach.

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Mickiewiczowski ideał wychowawczy Romana Pollaka

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Dambek-Giallelis Z., Niewiarowska D., Skrobała Ł.

Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka

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2023

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issue 45

313-343

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The article presents a previously unpublished lecture on Adam Mickiewicz by professor Roman Pollak, O idei wychowawczej Mickiewicza (On Mickiewicz’s pedagogic idea), which was created and given for the first time during the German occupation in Warsaw and then repeated in the early post-war years. The commentary locates this text in the context of Pollak’s biography and scientific interests; it also outlines the connection between the ideas presented in it and the philosophy and ethics in Mickiewicz’s Wykłady o literaturze słowiańskiej (Lectures on Slavic literature).

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Jakiej historii potrzeba? Tematyka obozowa w zapomnianych tekstach Andrzeja Brychta i Tadeusza Hołuja

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Łysak T.

Kwartalnik Filmowy

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2012

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issue 77-78

168-184

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Polish People’s Republic implemented its historical policy by employing film and literature in order to portray the martyrdom brought about by the Nazi occupation of Poland. The decade of the 1960’s was the most prolific period when it comes to the number of films devoted to the Holocaust and the camps. Some of the films were clearly motivated by political concerns and the fear that the past was forgotten and underrepresented in cultural representations. Two writers – Andrzej Brycht and Tadeusz Holuj – played a key role in bringing the past to the limelight despite generational differences between them. Holuj was a former inmate at Auschwitz-Birkenau whereas Brycht knew the past mainly from cultural representations.

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Abandoned libraries in the Warsaw ghetto 1942–1944. German librarians’ plans

Opuszczone biblioteki w getcie warszawskim 1942–1944. Plany niemieckich bibliotekarzy

Mickiewiczowski ideał wychowawczy Romana Pollaka

Jakiej historii potrzeba? Tematyka obozowa w zapomnianych tekstach Andrzeja Brychta i Tadeusza Hołuja