Trzy wizyty w Auschwitz
Three visits to Auschwitz
Author(s): Monika Adamczyk-GrabowskaSubject(s): Jewish studies, Studies in violence and power, Victimology, 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: Holocaust; Auschwitz; survivors; death camps;
Summary/Abstract: After World War Two, particularly in the years 1945–1947, various Jewish organizations and newspapers sent their representatives and reporters to Poland to examine the destruction of the country and estimate the situation of survivors. Most of these travelers visited the sites of former concentration and death camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau The author discusses and compares reports from three such visits by Joseph Tenenbaum (written in English) and Jacob Pat and Mordecai Tsanin (written in Yiddish). The article is annotated with a translation of four chapters from the discussed books. Three of them describe visits to Auschwitz and the fourth concerns the so called “gold rush,” that is looking for valuables in the ashes of former death camps by individuals and organized gangs.
Journal: Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały
- Issue Year: 2018
- Issue No: 14
- Page Range: 440-476
- Page Count: 37
- Language: Polish