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No. 1 (2020)

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2719-4086
eISSN:
2957-1413

Publication date:
2020-04-28

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No. 1 (2020)

„Polish-Jewish Studies”, v. 1, Warszawa 2020, 856 s., ISSN: 2719-4086

Dwujęzyczny (polsko-angielski) rocznik jest poświęcony historii społeczności żydowskiej na ziemiach polskich w XX wieku, utrwalaniu pamięci o polskich Żydach oraz wzajemnym i skomplikowanym relacjom polsko-żydowskim. W zamierzeniu redaktorów periodyk został przygotowany jako forum wymiany aktualnych ustaleń badawczych w obszarze „Jewish Studies” przez badaczy z różnych ośrodków naukowych.

Treść pierwszego numeru obejmuje przede wszystkim artykuły dotyczące okresu II wojny światowej, odnoszące się do szerokiego spektrum relacji polsko-żydowskich w czasie najtrudniejszej próby: zarówno negatywnych, jak i pozytywnych doświadczeń. Edycję zamykają teksty recenzyjne ważniejszych i kontrowersyjnych niekiedy opracowań badawczych z ostatnich lat, a także sprawozdania z konferencji naukowych oraz opis inicjatyw na rzecz zachowania pamięci o polskich Żydach.

Pierwszy numer periodyku został opublikowany poniżej, jest dostępny także w wersji elektronicznej w Bibliotece Cyfrowej IPN na portalu przystanekhistoria.pl.


Studies

  • ‘Aryan Papers’ . On the Help Provided by Poles in Legalising False Identities for Jews in the Territory of the General Governorate for the Occupied Polish Regions

    Sebastian Piątkowski

    Polish-Jewish Studies, No. 1 (2020), pages: 15-40

  • ‘Aryan Papers’. On the Help Provided by Poles in Legalising False Identities for Jews in the Territory of the General Governorate for the Occupied Polish Regions

    Sebastian Piątkowski

    Polish-Jewish Studies, No. 1 (2020), pages: 437-463

    Abstract

    Under the German occupation, Jews in the General Governorate sought any possible means of saving themselves and their closest family from the criminal policy of the Germans. One such way was to acquire false documents and operate under the guise of Poles and Christians. Adopting a new identity could only succeed if one had a very good command of Polish language, customs and culture. Acquiring false documents was a complicated process which required cooperation with Poles. Obtaining a baptismal certificate in the Catholic Church was the most important step. Friendly people provided such documents free of charge. These were the papers belonging to their next of kin, especially those who were deceased or missing in action. A market of forged baptismal certificates also existed. The next step was to acquire a residence attestation, which created a chance to obtain an identity card (Kennkarte). Well-off people could attempt to purchase whole sets of forged documents. Some ghetto escapees received them free of charge from Poles engaged in the anti-German military and civilian Undergrounds. Living under a false identity was very difficult. Such people were tracked down by both Germans and Polish blackmailers. Deportation to forced labour camps in Germany was often the best chance of survival for a person in hiding. A number of ghetto escapees pretending to be Polish women or men managed to survive in Germany until the end of the war.

  • Polish Diplomatic and Consular Representation in Havana, and the Case of Jewish Refugees in Cuba during the World War II

    Alicja Gontarek

    Polish-Jewish Studies, No. 1 (2020), pages: 41-76

  • Polish Diplomatic and Consular Representation in Havana, and the Case of Jewish Refugees in Cuba During the World War II

    Alicja Gontarek

    Polish-Jewish Studies, No. 1 (2020), pages: 464-499

    Abstract

    The article describes the activities of the Polish diplomatic and consular representations in Havana regarding the issue of the Jewish refugees who found themselves in Cuba during the World War II. It also concerns the role played by this mission, together with the Polish Government-in-Exile and the Legations of the Republic of Poland in Bern, Lisbon and Madrid, among others, during the operation of acquiring/confirming Cuban and Dominican passports for Jewish refugees residing in Europe and the Far East. First, the organisational status of the Polish diplomacy in this region is presented and the groups of Jewish refugees were characterised, emphasising the attempts to activate them socially and politically by the Polish representation. This serves as an introduction to the description of the multilevel activities of the Polish mission, which in wartime conditions was primarily focused on intensifying formal and legal activities aimed at guaranteeing diplomatic protection for the Jews residing in Cuba; undertaking diplomatic interventions; clarifying the issue of direct care over Polish groups, and acquiring new passports for the Jews who were facing death in occupied territories. Hundreds of Jews were rescued thanks to the commitment of Polish diplomacy and its cooperation with the JDC and Great Britain. The consulate and legation in Havana were the last link in the complicated and multistage evacuation of Jews from occupied Western Europe. The aim of this wide-ranging operation was to rescue as many Jews from the Old Continent as possible.

  • The Trial of the Polnische Polizei Functionaries from Wodzisław Accused of Crimes Against Jews (Held According to the Regulations of the 31 August 1944 Decree)

    Tomasz Domański

    Polish-Jewish Studies, No. 1 (2020), pages: 77-105

  • The Trial of the Polnische Polizei Functionaries from Wodzisław Accused of Crimes Against Jews (Held According to the Regulations of the 31 August 1944 Decree)

    Tomasz Domański

    Polish-Jewish Studies, No. 1 (2020), pages: 500-529

    Abstract

    After the Polish defeat in 1939, the German occupiers established a new police force within the General Governorate, formed of pre-war officers of the Polish State Police. They named it Polnische Polizei (Polish Police). The new police gained the name of the ‘Navy Blue Police’ because of the colour of the uniforms, and has become engraved under this name in social awareness and historical research. The officers of the Polnische Polizei were to implement the orders imposed by their German superiors. Among these tasks, anti-Jewish operations played an important role. The paper discusses the participation of Polnische Polizei policemen in the deportation of Jews from Wodzisław in the Jędrzejów district in 1942; it also attempts to verify the charges raised during the post-war trial of two functionaries. The analysis unambiguously proves that during the Jewish deportation period at least two policemen, including Józef Machowski, were involved in the murders of Jews. In addition, the same policeman, together with Józef Klepka from the Wodzisław police station, participated in the murder of the Rajzman family; Machowski was the one who shot them. For these crimes, Machowski was sentenced to capital punishment, and the sentence was carried out.

  • The Press of the Polish Socialist Party – Freedom, Equality, Independence and the Jews During World War II

    Maciej Żuczkowski

    Polish-Jewish Studies, No. 1 (2020), pages: 106-144

  • The Press of the Polish Socialist Party – Freedom, Equality, Independence and the Jews During World War II

    Maciej Żuczkowski

    Polish-Jewish Studies, No. 1 (2020), pages: 530-570

    Abstract

    The text discusses the attitude of the PPS-WRN underground press (the most important Polish Underground party, whose origins lay in the pre-war Polish Socialist Party) towards the Jewish population during World War II. Several subsections present how the PPS-WRN press reported on the Jewish population’s worsening situation, and then about the Holocaust. It also describes Zygmunt Zaremba’s concept of retaliation against Germans for their crimes, as well as the attitude of the PPS-WRN underground press towards the issues of anti-Semitism and blackmail, which socialist journalists equated with collaboration with the occupier, and for which they demanded equal punishment. The attitude of the PPS-WRN to the issue of the Jewish Underground and combat was also briefly described, as well as a surprising anti-Semitic passage included in the party’s most important political document.

  • The Jewish Question in the Political Thought of Obóz Narodowy (The National Camp) in 1939–1945

    Jarosław Tomasiewicz

    Polish-Jewish Studies, No. 1 (2020), pages: 145-206

  • The Jewish Question in the Political Thought of Obóz Narodowy (The National Camp) in 1939–1945

    Jarosław Tomasiewicz

    Polish-Jewish Studies, No. 1 (2020), pages: 571-633

    Abstract

    Anti-Semitism was, as well as anti-Germanism, one of the most emblematic components of the ideology of the National Camp, which was already clearly radicalising in the 1930s. During World War II, contrary to the assumptions of this ideology, Poland found itself on the same side of the barricade as the Jews. Nazi Germany removed the Jewish population from Poland (thus implementing the nationalists’ pre-war demand), but the inhumane methods of Nazi anti-Semitism were unacceptable to Polish nationalists. The new situation lead to a modification of nationalist ideology, a complex process. Initially, as a rule, the traditional anti-Semitic attitude
    was emphasised, with even some suggestions of German–Jewish collaboration. As the genocide of the Jewish population progressed, the anti-Jewish threads in the propaganda of the National Camp were gradually silenced, and there were notes of compassion for Jews. Finally, attempts were made to revise the attitude towards the Jewish question. The theoretical thought of the National Camp, however, did not keep up with practice here, and no new program was fully formed until the end of the war. This evolution did not affect the entire National Camp equally: its radical factions remained attached for longer to traditional anti-Semitism.


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Evaluation points allocated by MInistry of Education and Science
40 (2023) (20 - in the list in force in 2021) 

Fields: history, archival studies
Disciplines: history, security studies,  political and administration studies, international studies 

Editor-in-Chief: Grzegorz Berendt PhD habil.

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