An Observational Error: Barbara Engelking’s “Powiat bielski” [Bielsko County] Cover Image
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Błąd pomiaru. O artykule Barbary Engelking Powiat bielski
An Observational Error: Barbara Engelking’s “Powiat bielski” [Bielsko County]

Author(s): Joanna Tokarska-Bakir
Subject(s): Studies of Literature
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: third phase of the Holocaust; Podlachia peasants and nobility; class

Summary/Abstract: In this polemic with Barbara Engelking’s “Powiat bielski” [Bielsko County] from the edited volume Dalej jest noc [Beyond is the Night, 2018], Joanna Tokarska Bakir draws on her own fieldwork in Podlachia as well as archival sources. She questions Engelking’s main thesis, according to which the only people who rescued Jews during the third phase of the Holocaust in Bielsko County where peasants from villages surrounding a manor house.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 166-194
  • Page Count: 29
  • Language: Polish