Language:
English
Year of publication:
2004
Titel der Quelle:
Yad Vashem Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
32 (2004) 323-350
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Jews History 1918-1945
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World War, 1939-1945 Conscript labor
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World War, 1939-1945 Participation, Jewish
Abstract:
After the suppression of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, the Germans initiated works to clear the ghetto ruins and to convert the area into a park. For this purpose, a camp was set up on Gęsia Street, which became known as the Gęsiówka camp. 3,683 Jewish prisoners - Greek, French, Belgian, and Dutch nationals - were sent to Gęsiówka from Auschwitz, supplemented with 50 Polish Jews and, later, another 120 Polish Jews from the Pawiak prison. In July 1944 the Nazis evacuated most of the prisoners, leaving ca. 400 Jews in the camp. When the Warsaw uprising began in August 1944, a battalion of the Armia Krajowa liberated the last 350 prisoners in Gęsiówka. Most of them then joined in the Warsaw uprising, and many fell in battle. Some Jewish fighters were killed by Polish insurgents - members of the rightist antisemitic group Narodowe Siły Zbrojne - while some Jewish survivors of the uprising were hidden and helped by Poles. In 1994 a memorial inscription was unveiled near the former Gęsiówka site.
Note:
An abridged version appeared as "The Gęsiówka story; a little-known page of Jewish resistance" in "Polin" 17 (2004) 353-361
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In Hebrew:
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"יד ושם; קובץ מחקרים" לב (תשסד) 261-284
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