Żydówki w relacjach Polek więzionych w KL Ravensbrück
Jewish Women in Accounts of Polish Women Inmates of KL Ravensbrück

Summary/Abstract: Scholars researching the lives of inmates rescued from German concentration camps and medically treated in Sweden write about anti-Semitic attitudes among the rescued Poles. The article analyzes memories and testimonies of Polish women kept in Ravensbrück chosen with respect to mentions of the Jewish women homicide. The Polish women who directly experienced the Nazi terror adopt the role of a victim – a camp inmate – and, at the same time, a witness of the Holocaust. The Jewish women’s fate is most often absent from their accounts or signaled only by brief remarks. The memories of Janina Fabierkiewicz-Szyrkowska, Karolina Lanckorońska, Zofia Krzyżanowska and Maria Rutkowska-Kurcyuszowa stand out against this dominating silence as to the Jews’ situation in the camp. These accounts are devoted the most attention in the article.

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