Language:
English
Year of publication:
2006
Titel der Quelle:
Yad Vashem Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
34 (2006) 219-247
Keywords:
Hirszman, Chaim
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
Abstract:
Hirszman, a Jew born in 1912 and one of two known survivors of Bełżec, was murdered in his apartment in Lublin in 1946. Traditionally, Polish historiography interprets this murder as politically motivated, since Hirszman's last job was with the UB, the postwar communist political police which, inter alia, persecuted former members of the Armia Krajowa. However, details of the murder cast doubts on this interpretation. Reconstructs Hirszman's biography. After his escape from a Nazi transport, Hirszman joined the communist Armia Ludowa, and after the Soviet liberation of Lublin he was drafted into the UB. Notes that the antisemitic Armia Krajowa refused to accept Jews during the war and thus pushed them to join the Armia Ludowa; it was only natural that, after the war, these Jews continued to work for the communist power apparatus. Despite this, the number of Jews in the UB was not excessive. Notes that the Armia Ludowa was also not free of antisemitism, and that Hirszman probably left the UB because of bad work relations. The investigation of his murder was slow, and only one of his murderers was sentenced to a prison term.
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In Hebrew:
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יד ושם; קובץ מחקרים לד (תשסו).
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