The memoir opens with the spectacular escape of 18 year old Munio( Menachem Katz) from the murder of the last Jews of Brezazany at the cemetery on June 12, 1943. He was the only "W" (Wehrmacht) forced laborer - those who were thought to have a good chance to survive - who got away. Exhausted and wounded by a German bullet, Munio managed to reach the home of a Polish peasant acquaintance, Piortr Kmiec, int he village of Kurpoatniki. Kmiec and his wife, Hanka and their two daughters, Stefka and Franka, were among those few local people who were willing to assist Jews, endangering their own lives. They sheltered Munio, his mother, his younger sister, Rena, and five member of another Jewish family. For several months, until liberation by the Red Army in July 1944, they hid in a nearby forest. The saga of their survivival centers on the relations between the two Jewish families and the Kmiec family. Katz relates in detail the severe difficulties of daily existence in the closed and crowded spaces, alongside some moments of humor. Katz succeeded in locating Stefka and Franka Kmiec only in the early 1990s, after which the family was honored as Righteious Among the Nations. A circle has been closed.

Path of Hope (Holocaust Studies/ Holocaust Memoir)

Biographies & Memoirs

Menachem Katz

Memoirs

Yad Vashem

Major Changes Within The Jewish People In The Wake Of The Holocaust

Jerusalem 1996 Yisrael Gutman/Yad Vashem

Tommy: To Tommy, for His Third Birthday in Terezin, 22 January 1944

Bedrich FRITTA

Be-ḥasde zarim: Hatsalat yeladim bi-zehut sheʼulah be-Polin (Hebrew Edition)

Bogner, Nahum

Parenthood and the Holocaust.

Dan Bar-On

How Was It Humanly Possible? A Study of Perpetrators and Bystanders During the Holocaust

irena-steinfeldt-international-school-for-holocaust-studies-at-yad-vashem-beth-shalom-holocaust-memo

Private Tolkatchev - At the Gates of Hell

Anon`

Anna Podgajecki was born in Korzec, Poland. She was very beautiful, and also possessed the unique skill of predicting events, yet none of the Jews of Korzec listened to her warnings. Alone, wandering from place to place, everyone looked at her and admired her, although unscrupulous people took advantage of her goodness and innocence. Anna survived the war as a Russian-German translator in a tire factory, as a housekeeper, on the roads, under house arrest by secret police, and finally, by working as a nurse at the front. In 1958, she and her husband were allowed back to Poland, and in 1960 they immigrated to Israel.

Anna: A Teenager on the Run

Anna Podgajecki

Dilemmas, silence, active rescue, and passivity are words often associated with Pius XII. Critics emphasize the wartime Pope s failure to condemn Nazism, while defenders maintain that Vatican neutrality facilitated rescue activities by the faithful. This publication, which consists of the oral presentations of scholars gathered at Yad Vashem in March 2009 for a groundbreaking international workshop, attempts to present the current state of research on Pius XII and the Holocaust, based on new documentation.

Pius XII and the Holocaust: Current State of Research

Religion & Spirituality

Judaism

This book discusses the Jewish world and Polish-Jewish relations in postwar Poland. The articles reflect the crucial stages of Jewish life in postwar Poland losses, hopes, rebirth, rebuilding lives, and the situation of Jews in Poland today. This book provides a picture of current Polish historiography of the Holocaust, based on sources and studies rarely used before.

Jewish Presence in Absence: The Aftermath of the Holocaust in Poland, 1944 2010

Feliks Tych and Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska

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