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

• Authors: Libionka D.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

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.

Keywords

EN

HOLOCAUST; 'JEWISH FIGHTING UNION'S' HISTORY; WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Zaglada Zydów. Studia i Materialy (Holocaust. Studies and Materials)
• Year: 2005
• Volume: 1
• Pages: 165-190
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Libionka D.

• D. Libionka, Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii PAN, ul. Nowy Swiat 72, 00-330 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07PLAAAA03066290