Latest edition of the annual ”Holocaust Studies and Material” published

KJ, 16 November 2016

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This is the eighth edition of the annual to be published by the Polish Centre for Holocaust Research.It contains unique material relating to Operation Reinhardt, as well as numerous articles on various topics, among them an article analysing the moral dilemmas and existential dramas connected with hiding Jewish escapees from ghettoes.

The issue also contains a special section of material relating to the 70th anniversary of Operation Reinhardt – a unique piece by Rachela Auerbach, ”On the Fields of Treblinka”, written in Yiddish in 1946 as well as a revealing study by Caroline Strudy Colls of Staffordshire University in England, about her archaeological examination of the terrain of the former Treblinka extermination camp.

The issue’s remaining articles are arranged along various connected themes, among them being forced labour camps, the hiding of Jews and the moral dilemmas connected to that, collaboration and bringing the perpetrators of the Holocaust to account, German Jews in the Łódż ghetto, human remains in the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and photographic representations of Holocaust experiences. As part of the Year of Janusz Korczak, the issue also contains never before published letters written from his orphanage during 1940-1941 and the fate of writings by Korczak which were saved from the ghetto.

The volume conatins, among other items:

Rachela Auerbach – Treblinka – a dcumentary report
Caroline Sturdy Colls – archaeological work at Treblinka
Justyna Kowalska-Leder - the psychological consequences of helping Jewish escapees from a ghetto
Wendy Lower - persuing Nazis in the NRD
Letters from the Orphanage from 1940–1941 by Marta Ciesielska
Agnieszka Witkowska-Krych on the fate of the writings of Janusz Korczak
Adam Sitarek on the presence of Czech and German Jews in the Łódż ghetto
Ewa Wiatr on the fates of Iron Cross veterans from the Łódż ghetto
Jacek Leociak, Jan Grabowski, Elżbieta Janicka on Festung Warschau (Fortess Warsaw)
Jacek Nowakowski on research on the Holocaust and the teaching of it in the United States