Night and Day Stories: the Holocaust Experience in the Polish Province Cover Image

Nocne i dzienne historie: doświadczenie Zagłady na polskiej prowincji. (O książce „Dalej jest noc. Losy Żydów w wybranych powiatach okupowanej Polski”)
Night and Day Stories: the Holocaust Experience in the Polish Province

Author(s): Karolina Koprowska
Subject(s): Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: province; village; Holocaust; microhistory; Jews

Summary/Abstract: The article is a review of the book Dalej jest noc. Losy Żydów w wybranych powiatach okupowanej Polski [Beyond is the Night – the Fate of Jews in Selected Local Government Districts in Occupied Poland]. This two-volume work, edited by Barbara Engelking and Jan Grabowski, has been published by the Centre for Holocaust Research IFIS PAN. It is a summary of a research project that concerns survival strategies of Jews during the Occupation in the General Government (1942-1945). The authors attempt to describe nine different poviats through the prism of microhistory, focusing on the course of events during the Holocaust, German policies at the time, Polish-Jewish, Polish-Polish and Ukranian-Jewish relations.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 36
  • Page Range: 161-174
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish