STUDIA. Apokryfy z dziejów Żydowskiego Związku Wojskowego i ich autorzy
STUDIES. Apocrypha from the history of the Jewish Fighting Union and its authors
Author(s): Dariusz LibionkaSubject(s): History
Published by: Stowarzyszenie Centrum Badań nad Zagładą Żydów & IFiS PAN
Keywords: Holocaust; Jewish Military Union; Security Corps; Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Summary/Abstract: This article is an attempt at a critical analysis of the history of the Jewish Fighting Union (JFU) and a presentation of their authors based on documents kept in the archives of the Institute of National Remembrance in Warsaw. The author believes that an uncritical approach and such a treatment of these materials, which were generated under the communist regime and used for political purposes resulted in a perverted and lasting picture of the history of this fighting organisation of Zionists-revisionists both in Poland and Israel. The author has focused on a deconsturction of the most important and best known “testimonies regarding the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising”, the development and JFU participation in this struggle, given by Henryk Iwaƒski, W∏adys∏aw Zajdler, Tadeusz Bednarczyk and Janusz Ketling–Szemley. A comparative analysis of these materials, supplemented by important details of their war-time and postwar biographies, leaves no doubt as to the fact that they should not be analysed in terms of their historical credibility and leads one to conclude that a profound revision of research approach to JFU history is necessary.
Journal: Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały
- Issue Year: 2005
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 165-192
- Page Count: 27
- Language: Polish