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Apocrypha from the history of the Jewish Fighting Union and its authors

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Libionka D.

Zaglada Zydów. Studia i Materialy (Holocaust. Studies and Materials)

2005

vol. 1

165-190

This article is an attempt at a critical analysis of the history of the Jewish Fighting Union (JFU) and a presentation of their authors based on documents kept in the archives of the Institute of National Remembrance in Warsaw. The author believes that an uncritical approach and such a treatment of these materials, which were generated under the communist regime and used for political purposes resulted in a perverted and lasting picture of the history of this fighting organisation of Zionists-revisionists both in Poland and Israel. The author has focused on a deconstruction of the most important and best known 'testimonies regarding the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising', the development and JFU participation in this struggle, given by Henryk Iwanski, Władyslaw Zajdler, Tadeusz Bednarczyk and Janusz Ketling–Szemley. A comparative analysis of these materials, supplemented by important details of their war-time and postwar biographies, leaves no doubt as to the fact that they should not be analysed in terms of their historical credibility and leads one to conclude that a profound revision of research approach to JFU history is necessary.

DISCUSSING THE HOLOCAUST IN CONTEMPORARY POLAND (Mówienie o Zagladzie we wspólczesnej Polsce)

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Krajewski S.

Zaglada Zydów. Studia i Materialy (Holocaust. Studies and Materials)

2009

vol. 5

317-324

Discussion of the Holocaust is often obscured by the story of a resistance heroism. It is illustrated by Rapoport's Warsaw monument of Warsaw Ghetto Heroes. That there are no words suitable for a discussion about the Holocaust reality is becoming evident when we speak about the purpose of the ghetto uprising. The Warsaw ghetto victims should be revered regardless of the uprising and be given voice in order to place the innocent victims in the central position. On the monument in Birkenau the inscription, concerning 'the Auschwitz heroes', says that they fought 'for human freedom and dignity, for peace and brotherhood of nations'. Such words in a place where more than a million Jews who did not fight were gassed, are totally inadequate, even insulting. The recent history of the term 'Holocaust' (its spread and acquisition of more profound sense, its abuse and attempts to appropriate it) is an example of the significance of Jewish fate for global civilization. The most tragic fragment of the recent Jewish history received a ennobling name. We can say that it is a story of another Jewish 'success'.

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Apocrypha from the history of the Jewish Fighting Union and its authors

DISCUSSING THE HOLOCAUST IN CONTEMPORARY POLAND (Mówienie o Zagladzie we wspólczesnej Polsce)