Language:
English
Year of publication:
1997
Titel der Quelle:
Shvut; Studies in Russian and East European Jewish History and Culture
Angaben zur Quelle:
5 [21] (1997) 144-170
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Foreign public opinion, Eretz Israel
;
Eretz Israel History 1917-1948, British Mandate period
Abstract:
Discusses the attitude of the Polish civil and military authorities and of the Yishuv toward the desertion (mainly in Palestine) of enlisted Jews from the Polish army-in-exile. The army was constituted during 1941-42 in the USSR from Polish citizens, including Jews, released by the Soviets from their forced labor and POW camps. Anders' forces were evacuated to the Middle East (during 1942) - first to Iran and Iraq, from where most of its units were transferred to Palestine. Dwells, also, on the attitude of the Polish military authorities toward the enlistment of Jews, and the conduct toward the recruited Jews in Anders' forces. The deserters explained their actions as resulting from the prevailing antisemitic atmosphere in the army, which indeed made no real efforts to search for the deserters and sometimes even encouraged them.
Note:
In Hebrew:
,
"הקונגרס העולמי למדעי היהדות" 11,ב, כרך 2 (תשנג) 297-304; "יהדות זמננו" 9 (תשנה) 149-167
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