Jewish Fugitives in the Polish Countryside, 1939–1945

Table Of Contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• About the author
• About the book
• This eBook can be cited
• Table of Contents
• Irena Grudzińska-Gross: History Persists
• Introduction
• 1. Zofia Nałkowska’s ‘By the Railway Track’. Historical Precedent and Literary Adaptation
• The Woman by the Track
• Man by the Track
• The Woman by the Track Returns
• False Transcendence
• Actual Immanence
• 2. Bełk and Other Places. The Story of Decurions-as-Hostages
• The Hunt in Bełk
• The Roundup
• A Trap for Jews
• Hostages and Decurions
• Letters
• The Account Given in Linz
• Pilawski’s Trials
• Taboo
• 3. The Brother Months: Dirty Warriors’ Testimony
• 1. Tale Type 480
• 2. Dirty Warriors
• 3. The Scene of the Crime
• 4. The Social Status of the Perpetrators
• 5. Province of Night?
• 6. How Did Members of the BCh and AK Vigilante Formations Themselves Speak about What They Were Doing to the Jews?
• 7. Methodology
• 8. The Consequences of Agency
• 9. Types of Torturers
• 10. Perpetrators’ Testimony Type: Discontinuity and Disorientation
• 4. The Home Army and Peasant Battalions’ Sabotage Teams in the Sandomierz Region. A Supplement to Zelman Baum’s Testimony
• Introduction
• Zelman Baum, a Profile
• The Commanders
• Letter Informing on Śliwiński, Sokół, and Skrzek
• The Killing of Szmul Penczyna, September 1942
• Błonie: the Killing of Alter Mandelbaum, October 1943
• Trzykosy: the Killing of Mordka Perelman, 20 October 1943
• ‘Two Jewish Lasses, Both Grown Girls,’ Bogoria, Before Christmas Eve 1943
• Mala Perlmuter and Twelve-Year-Old Baum boy, Krzcin, 23 December 1943
• The Wounding of Szyja Zoberman
• Smerdyna, the Dywans’ Place
• Raid on Koryciński’s Bunker in Smerdyna
• Post Factum
• The Trial
• Conclusions
• 5. The Righteous of Giebułtów. The National Armed Forces in the Battle against the Jews
• Wartime Vigilantism
• Giebułtów 7/8 May 1944
• Witness Testimonies
• Investigation, 1954: Piątakiewicz (‘Znicz’), TW ‘Polak’
• Słowik (‘Bursik’)
• Jan Grzegorczyk (‘Lisowczyk,’ TW ‘Pstrąg’)
• Edward Ożóg (‘Nocoń’)
• Stanisław Stelmach (‘Dąb,’ TW ‘Wicher’)
• Unit Logbook: Michał Spanier (‘Bem’)
• Conclusion
• 6. ‘When Dawn Breaks.’ Adamów and Malenie, Machory Borough, Opoczno District, June 1944
• ‘Hitler– Endek Dwa Bratanki’ (Hitler– Endek , Two Brothers)
• The National Party in the Opoczno District During the 1930s
• The ‘National’ Wartime Underground Press About the Jews
• Stanisław Jóźwik: the President of the National Party in Zacharzów
• Stanisław Wilk, Head of the National Party in Żarnów, and Lieutenant Tadeusz Zajączek
• Execution in the Machory Woods
• The Sentences for Zajączek and His Accomplices
• A Miniature ‘Poznań Speech’
• 7. The Girl and the Painter. Ostrowiec, 19 March 1945
• The Murder on ul. Radomska 34
• The Survivors’ Version
• The Accounts of the Witnesses
• The Testimonies of the Perpetrators: Ludwik Krzymiński and Kazimierz Markwart
• Markwart and Krzymiński’s Versions of Events, as Given During the Trial
• The Final Hearing and Verdict
• Counternarrative
• Other Stories
• A Postscript: Henry Silberberg’s Testimony
• 8. Terror in Przedbórz: The Night of May 26, 1945
• Oral History
• Written Sources
• Interrogations and Trial Records
• What Happened in Przedbórz: the Night Raid
• Executions
• Victims
• Perpetrators
• The Power and Social Structures in Postwar Przedbórz
• A Pogrom, Vigilantism or Terrorism? Categorizing Collective Violence in Przedbórz
• Conclusion
• 9. Town of K.: Postscript on Gadulski
• Testimony of Stanisław Soja
• Chaskiel Goldkind (aka Lederman)
• Goldkind Murder: Testimonies of Józef Przybylski and Kazimierz Karwacki
• Gadulski: A Biographical Sketch
• The Klimontów Pogrom 17/4/1945
• Murder of Abram Zlotnicki
• A Motive
• The Murder of Two Jewish Women in Goźlice, a Couple from Byszów, a Tailor from Chmielnik, Two Drowned in the Koprzywnianka River, and Ultramarynówna...
• The Trial and Sentence
• At the Barber
• 10. Error in Measurement. On Barbara Engelking’s Article ‘The Bielsk County’
• The Nobility, Not the Peasants?
• The Peasants
• Mixed Marriages
• The Memory of the Locals About Mixed Marriages with Jews
• In Brańsk– – the Lordlike Way
• Germans in Brańsk
• Error of Measurement
• 11. Gewalt Gegen Juden als ‘Wolnica’ (Lizenz zum Töten)
• Bauern und Juden
• Die galizischen Pogrome von 1898
• Nach der Wiedererstehung des polnischen Staates
• Der Krieg
• Die Mythen
• Der Pogrom von Kielce
• Eliten oder Abschaum
• 12. A Chronic Blunder
• Dreaming
• The landscape after the cleansing
• ‘A new approach to the sources’
• Bibliography
• List of Pictures
• List of Abbreviations
• Index of Names
• Series index