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Extermination of the Jewish and Polish Population in Miechów in the Eyes of a Teenager. Unpublished memoirs of Andrzej Wędzki, 1939–1945
Wojciech Mądry
wojciech.madry@ispan.waw.pl Author BiographyPhD, assistant professor at the Department of History of the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. His research interests focus on issues related to the medieval history of Poland, the dynastic policy of the Piasts, and especially the places of burial of its representatives. He also conducts research on the history of Polish Slavic studies, emphasizing the specificity of the activity of the Poznań Slavic center in the years 1919–1939. Recently published Władysław Kowalenko (1884–1966). Badacz dziejów dawnej Słowiańszczyzny na lądzie i na morzu [Władysław Kowalenko (1884–1966). Researcher of the history of the former Slavic region on land and at sea] (2019).
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5078-9714
Department of History, Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 17 (2021), Pages: 310-325
Submission Date: 2021-12-17Publication Date: 2021-12-20
https://doi.org/10.32927/zzsim.881
Abstract
This article analyses an unpublished fragment of the memoir written shortly after the end of World War II by the then 20-year-old student, later Professor Andrzej Wędzki. This document was found in the Poznań Branch of the Archives of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 2020. After the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, Andrzej Wędzki and his family were forced to leave their apartment in the city of Leszno, and via Krakow he reached Miechów. He stayed there from mid-1941 until the end of the war in 1945. Andrzej Wędzki witnessed the persecution and then the murder of a large local Jewish community, which he described in detail in the memoir. This document contains a comprehensive description of the Poles’ attitude towards the persecution of the Jewish and Polish population committed by the Germans. The memoir is an important document showing Germans’ crimes against the Jews in the Miechów region. At the same time the memoir contributes to the discussion on the attitude of the Polish population towards the Holocaust.
Keywords
ghetto , Miechów , Germany , legacy , deportation , extermination , crimes , Jews
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