Karski–Zygielbojm. Historia pewnej rozmowy
Karski-Zygielbojm. The story of a conversation
Author(s): Michał TrębaczSubject(s): WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Fascism, Nazism and WW II, History of the Holocaust
Published by: Stowarzyszenie Centrum Badań nad Zagładą Żydów & IFiS PAN
Keywords: Szmul Zygielbojm; Jan Karski; Stanisław Mikołajczyk; Polish Underground State; Holocaust; information about the Holocaust; Polish National Council;
Summary/Abstract: Jan Karski’s meeting with Bundist Shmuel Zygielbojm has long been known from only one side. In an unstructured part of the Zygielbojm collection stored in the YIVO archives in New York, notes from the meeting written in Zygielbojm’s hand have been preserved. Using these previously unknown documents, this article allows us to look at that famous meeting, symbolizing wartime Polish-Jewish relations, in a new way and raise questions not only about the course of the conversation, but above all about the effect. The information obtained during it changed the way Zygielbojm looked at the situation of Jews in occupied Poland.
Journal: Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały
- Issue Year: 2022
- Issue No: 18
- Page Range: 203-221
- Page Count: 19
- Language: Polish