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The article, based on archival materials, analyzes the situation on the grounds of the former Auschwitz camp soon after its liberation. The situation is discussed from two perspectives: the administrative one, which is associated with the legal status of the former camp areas and the moral one — related to the behavior of the local population, who committed acts of plunder and desecration of the ashes of the murdered victims. The author discusses and evaluates the actions undertaken by the state authorities at different levels to protect the area of the former camp. He also presents the first concepts of organization of the Auschwitz Museum, which was officially established in 1947.
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KL Auschwitz was a complex of German Nazi concentration camps and extermination camp (Auschwitz II Birkenau). It was established in April 1940 in the area of the town of Oświęcim, as a concentration camp for political prisoners – mainly the Poles. In the following years it was being enlarged and became the main site of mass extermination of the Jews and other people from all over Europe. The complex history of the camp resulted in the variety of meanings that Auschwitz has for various national, ethnic and social groups that created its own Auschwitz, or its own metaphor of the camp and the ways of commemorating it. The article is an attempt to outline the problem of the commemorating the victims of Auschwitz at the Auschwitz State Museum in Oświecim since it was established in 1947 until 2000. It discusses the issue of the perception of Auschwitz by the Polish society, reflects about symbolism and significance of this places for the Poles, Jews and other groups of victims. But moreover it is an attempt to investigate the process of shaping (and distorting) the memory of this event during the Communist time and just after it collapsed, indicating the political factors that affected the shape of historical consciousness of Poles.
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Small towns were a common phenomenon in the interwar Poland. By fulfilling the specific role of links between the industrial city and rural countryside, they added some coulor to the social interactions and stamped their influence  on the economic life of the country. The area of the Cracow Voivodeship was coverd with a dense network of small towns. In 1918, there were 39 towns (including 32 small towns) within the borders of the Voivodeship. Urbanization process were unequal and rather slow, although in some cases their dynamics was considerable (Zakopane, Dębica). Only a few large urban settlements inn which the member of inhabitatiomns exceeded 30 thousand existed in the analyzed period. Among them were: Cracow, Tarnów, and Nowy Sącz. The number of inhabitations in the majority of the remaining towns dis not exceed 10 thousand and the number of such towns increased systematically. The article aketches the problem of the existence and development of small towns in the Cracow Voivodeship in the interwar period. Its author presenta the origins of small towns and discusses their character. Then, he analyzies the typs, administrative changes and legal status of small towns that were important from the point of view of economic and social changes in the region. Finally, he draws attension to the phenomena connected with the territorial development of small towns and the influence of this development on social changes.
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The basie Jewish trade organisations in the Cracow province were guilds. Their legał status during the inter-war period was regulated by ordinances of the President of the Republic of Poland dated June 7, 1927. As of the datę of issuing this decree the Jewish craftsmanship gained new basis for its organisation system and work. The process of creating denominational guilds became morę intensified. The new industrial law contributed to the division of craftsmanship, which had been uniform in Małopolska until then. In 1935 12 Jewish guilds (25 Christian) were active within the Cracow province, and their number grewto 16 in the next two years, whereas in 1938 there were 17 ofthem. Agreat majority of the guilds were in the city of Cracow. In the rural areas, besides big cities such as Tamow or Nowy Sącz where the number of Jewish craftsmen was considerable, there  existedcornmon denomination guilds and collective ones with respect to trade participation. County and City Guild Associations were denominational mixtures as well. Jewish handicraftsmen were numerously represented at the province Craftsmanship Chamber. Guilds were free associations, however, from the very beginning a struggle carried on to transform them into compulsory institutions. It tumed out that most of the craftsmen did not enter the new organisation. A smali number of guild members limited the scope of their activities considerably, which as a result led to creating good conditions for the development of dishonest competition. That is why depriving the guilds of the compulsory character introduced chaos and confusion in craftsmanship (especially in Małopolska), and was responsible for its sudden and noticeable decline. Apart from regarding guilds as compulsory organisations, it was also demanded that, after a transition period, an unconditional duty of having a proof of craftsman’s ąualifications should be introduced. The postulate was firmly supported by the Congress of Jewish Craftsmanship of the Cracow Province, which was convened in Cracow in September 1931. Unfortunately, the State authorities did not approve it. Thus the struggle to introduce the guild obligation, which had been carried on continually sińce 1927 with great involvement of Małopolska Jewish craftsmen, ended up with failure. An unąuestionable success, however, mainly of Jewish craftsmen was the consolidation of handicraftsmen’s community (irrespective of denomination) towards the goal of improving the condition of craftsmanship, which evidently relied on the reform of the guild system.
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