STUDIES. Historiography of the Holocaust on the Polish-Jewish relations in Poland Cover Image

STUDIA. Historiografia na temat Zagłady i stosunków polsko-Żydowskich w okresie drugiej wojny światowej
STUDIES. Historiography of the Holocaust on the Polish-Jewish relations in Poland

Author(s): Natalia Aleksiun
Subject(s): History
Published by: Stowarzyszenie Centrum Badań nad Zagładą Żydów & IFiS PAN
Keywords: history; Polish-Jewish relations; Polish Jewry; Holocaust; Holocaust research

Summary/Abstract: Historiography of the Holocaust published in Poland in the period from the end of the Second World War and until the nineties seems quite complex. While it did not ignore the topic altogether, it avoided some topics. Especially in the period immediately after the war, Jewish historians in the Central Jewish Historical Commission in Poland engaged in research and published important pioneering studies along collections of documents. From 1968 until the 1980s. historical research on the fate of Polish Jews during the war became marginalized and was carried out almost exclusively in Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw. Despite a large number of local studies and research on the controversial topic of Polish-Jewish relations during the war, the historiography still lacks a more theoretical study and a new synthesis of the Holocaust of Polish Jewry has not yet been written.

  • Issue Year: 2005
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 32-51
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Polish