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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.

The Life and the Holocaust in Hrubieszów in the Eyes of a Young Woman from Warsaw

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Kopciowski A., Libionka D.

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

2007

vol. 3

229-240

This text deals with the situation of the Jewish population of Hrubieszów between autumn 1941 and the first deportation action in June 1942. The author of the testimony is a woman by the name Dychterman, who came to Hrubieszów from the Warsaw ghetto. During the 'action' she managed to leave for Warsaw. This testimony was written two weeks later, i.e. in late June 1942 by staff members of Ringelblum's Archive. It stands out among other testimonies from Hrubieszów in the Warsaw Ghetto Archives, as it is full of details and complex description. It also contains an interesting description of the Jewish community in the town, the living conditions and its everyday life. It also contains data of the Judenrat members as well as observations on the Christian-Jewish relations (i.e. between Jews and Poles or Ukrainians). The second part of the testimony describes the first liquidation action in Hrubieszów, the extermination action and the reactions of the Judenrat and that of the population towards the resettlement. The fate of the authoress remains unknown. Most likely she died during the 'Great Action' in the Warsaw ghetto. This account has been used by historians, but never previously published.

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

The Life and the Holocaust in Hrubieszów in the Eyes of a Young Woman from Warsaw