Polish and Jewish Resistance Movements

24.02.2009 14:14:36

Institute of National Remembrance invites for International Conference Polish and Jewish Resistance Movements under the German Occupation in the years 1939–1945

Monday, 23 March 2009

9.00–9.30 – Opening of the conference

Session One – Chair: Prof. Jan Żaryn

9.30–9.50 – Adam Puławski, The Union of Armed Combat–Home Army (ZWZ/AK), the Government Delegate’s Office at Home, and the Polish Government in Exile vis-à-vis the extermination of the Jewish population in Poland in 1942.

9.50–10.10 – Dr Janusz Gmitruk, The Peasants’ Movement vis-à-vis the extermination of the Polish Jews during the Second World War.

10.10–10.30 – Dr Piotr Gontarczyk, The underground Polish Workers’ Party vis-à-vis the Jews, 1942–1945.

11.10–11.30 – Coffee break

Session Two – Chair: Dr Elżbieta Rączy

11.30–11.50 – Dr Marcin Urynowicz, Judenrats and the issue of active resistance.

11.50–12.10 – Dr Piotr Kędziorek, The underground press of the Warsaw Ghetto as an instrument of political activity of the Jewish resistance movement.

12.10–12.30 – Witold Mędykowski, Uneven victims, uneven struggle: The crossroads of the Polish and Jewish resistance movements during the German occupation.

13.10–15.10 – Lunch break

Session Three – Chair: Dr Dariusz Libionka

15.10–15.30 – Prof. John Radziłowski, Ejszyszki and the historiography of ethnic conflicts in northeastern Poland in the years 1939–1945.

15.30–15.50 – Dr Yevgenii Rozenblat, Jewish participation it the anti-Nazi underground and partisan movement in Belarus in the years 1941–1944.

15.50–16.10 – Dr Bogdan Musiał, Against the common enemy: Soviet partisans and the Jews under the German occupation in Belarus  in the years 1941–1944.

16.50–17.10 – Coffee break

17.10–18.30 – Panel discussion: Poles in the armed underground vis-à-vis the Holocaust.

Moderator: Prof. Grzegorz Berendt; Speakers: Dr Piotr Gontarczyk, Dr Dariusz Libionka, Witold Mędykowski and Leszek Żebrowski.

Tuesday, 24 March 2009

Session Four – Chair: Witold Mędykowski

10.00–10.20 – Alina Skibińska, Jews in the Home Army. An episode in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski.

10.20–10.40 – Dr Dariusz Libionka, The poor Home Army soldiers look at the liquidation of the ghettos (the example of the Warsaw district).

11.10–11.30 – Coffee break

Session Five – Chair: Dr Aleksandra Namysło

11.30–11.50 – Patricia Romerstein, Prof. Herbert Romerstein, The Abandonment of the Poles and Jews – Soviet Intelligence Operations Against Polish-Americans, Jewish-Americans, and others Who Tried to Help the Victims of Nazism.

11.50–12.10 – Dr Elżbieta Rączy, The Holocaust in the Rzeszów region in the light of Home Army’s reports.

12.10–12.30 – Piotr Szopa, The Polish Underground State in the Rzeszów region vis-à-vis the crimes committed on Jews.

13.20–15.20 – Lunch break

Session Six – Chair: Dr Marcin Urynowicz

15.20–15.40 – Dr Edyta Gawron, The Jewish resistance movement in Cracow in the context of invigilation and Gestapo repressions.

15.40–16.00 – Dr Aleksandra Namysło, Self-salvation or self-defense? The Jewish youth of Zagłębie Dąbrowskie and their attitude towards the realities of the German occupation.

16.00–16.20 – Prof. Grzegorz Berendt, Poles and Jews in Gdańsk region in the face of the German brutality in the years 1939–1941.

17.00–17.30 – Conclusion and closing of the conference