Language:
Polish
Year of publication:
2000
Titel der Quelle:
BŻIH
Angaben zur Quelle:
194 (2000) 171-180
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements
;
Jews History 1933-
Abstract:
A paper delivered at the conference "Europe under Nazi Rule and the Holocaust" (Warsaw, 1999). Describes the tragic situation of the Polish population and the hopeless situation of the Jews under Nazi occupation, which explains differences in the reactions of both populations to the entrance of the Wehrmacht and of the Red Army into Poland. Surveys attitudes of various underground Polish organizations to the Jews, and their plans concerning the Jews in Poland after the war. The right-wing organizations demanded emigration of the Jews, while the left demanded equal rights for all citizens. The Polish underground cooperated with the Jewish organizations concerning informing the world about the fate of the Jews; it also founded Zegota. But assistance was given to the Jews more by individuals than by organizations. The attitude of the Polish underground to armed groups of Jews was predominantly unfriendly. Cooperation was reported only in the eastern regions where Ukrainians were the common enemy.
Note:
With an English summary.
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Appeared in English as "The Polish underground and the Jews in the years of the Second World War" in "Nazi Europe and the Final Solution" (2003) 215-230. A Hebrew version appeared in
,
"ילקוט מורשת" עב (תשסב)
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