„Zamienię 2 ładne pokoje, kuchnia, łazienka […], dzielnica żydowska…”. Wymiana mieszkań między Polakami i Żydami w czasie tworzenia gett w Warszawie i Krakowie
„Will exchange 2 nice rooms, kitchen and toilet […], Jewish quarter…”. Apartment Swaps Between Poles and Jews at the Time when Ghettos Were Being Established in Warsaw and Kraków

Summary/Abstract: The question of finding and exchanging apartments, which were an inseparable part of the process of establishing the ghettos, has only been studies on a quite limited scale. In my article I tried to trace back the process of ghetto formation in Kraków and Warsaw from this angle precisely. The reason I selected these two cities was that each of them was assigned a different rank by the occupying authorities and a radically different attitude to the Jewish communities of these towns in the early months of World War II. The article is based on wartime and post-war accounts as well as the wording of classified ads printed in the German-controlled papers: Nowy Kurier Warszawski, Goniec Krakowski and Gazeta Żydowska, which documented the grassroots attempts to arrange apartment swaps between the Jews and the Poles.

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