Language:
Polish
Year of publication:
2005
Titel der Quelle:
Kwartalnik Historii Żydów
Angaben zur Quelle:
216 (2005) 481-505
Keywords:
Schiper, Ignacy (Yitzhak)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Jews
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Jewish ghettos
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Yitzhak Schipper (1884-1943) was a scholar and historian of Polish Jewry. In the Warsaw ghetto, he was the head of the Żydowski Komitet Opieki Społecznej (Jewish Welfare Committee) which helped homeless, ill, and hungry Jews in the Warsaw region. The Committee existed between February 1941-July 1942. The German authorities granted its members permission to leave the ghetto at times in order to bring aid to Jews in ghettos in small localities around Warsaw, among them Falenica, Otwock, Rembertów, and others. The Committee, due of lack of funds, was not able to really give substantial help to the crowded ghettos around Warsaw in which there were also many Jews who had been transferred from other towns. In 1943 Schipper was deported to Majdanek, where he died. Pp. 502-505 contain a testimony by Jakub Lichterman on the life and death of Schipper in Majdanek.
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