Tag: Kielce

Free Download Sara Bender, "In Enemy Land: The Jews of Kielce and the Region, 1939-1946 "
English | ISBN: 1618118714 | 2019 | 356 pages | PDF | 12 MB
This book offers a study of the Jewish community in Kielce and its environs during World War II and the Holocaust. It is the first of its kind in providing a comprehensive account of Kielce’s Jews and their history as victims under the German occupation. The book focuses in particular on Jewish-Polish relations in the Kielce region; the deportation of the Jews of Kielce and its surrounding areas to the Treblinka death camp; the difficulties faced by those attempting to help and save them; and daily life in the Small Ghetto from September 1942 until late May 1943.

Free Download Joanna Tokarska-Bakir, "Cursed: A Social Portrait of the Kielce Pogrom"
English | ISBN: 1501771485 | 2023 | 592 pages | PDF | 4 MB
In Cursed, Joanna Tokarska-Bakir investigates the July 4, 1946, Kielce pogrom, a milestone in the periodization of the Jewish diaspora. This massacre compelled thousands of Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust to flee postwar Poland. It remains a negative reference point in the Polish historical narrative and represents a lack of reckoning with the role of antisemitism in postwar Polish society and identity politics.