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Feliks Tych. Historyk (ocalały z) Zagłady
Feliks Tych. Holocaust historian

Author(s): Tomasz Siewierski
Subject(s): Higher Education , Studies in violence and power, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), History of the Holocaust, History of Antisemitism, Ethnic Minorities Studies
Published by: Stowarzyszenie Centrum Badań nad Zagładą Żydów & IFiS PAN
Keywords: Feliks Tych; Jewish Historical Institute; Radomsko ghetto; help to Jews; anti-Semitism; history of historiography; the left;

Summary/Abstract: This article presents the biography of Feliks Tych, historian, researcher of the left, a long-standing employee of the Party History Institute of the Party History Institute of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers’ Party, Central Archives of the the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers’ Party, director of the Jewish Historical Institute. The text focuses on previously unknown threads of Tych’s life, concerning his Jewish home in Radomsko, and of his imprisonment and escape from the ghetto in the town on the eve of the great liquidation operation, as well as the circumstances of his survival in occupied Warsaw. The post-war fate of the historian is subsequently discussed, reflecting on the consequences of war-time experiences and their impact on Tych’s career choices.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 17
  • Page Range: 261-282
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Polish