Bibliography: Rescue in Poland during the Holocaust

 



Altruism in the Holocaust


Baron, Lawrence. “The mobilization of moral outrage: Calvinist and Socialist rescue networks for Jews in Nazi-occupied Holland.”  Paper presented at the Pacific Sociological Association, San Francisco, California, April 9, 1995.

Baron, Lawrence. “Parochialism, patriotism, and philo-Semitism: Why members of the Reformed Churches rescued Jews in the Netherlands during the Holocaust.” Paper presented at the Seventh Annual Conference of the Midwest Jewish Studies Association, October 22 and 23, 1995, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota.

Bogner, Nahum (2012). "The Convent Children. The Rescue of Jewish Children in Polish Convents During the Holocaust" (PDF). Shoah Resource Center.

Fogelman, Eva. Conscience & Courage: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust (New York: Anchor Books/Doubleday, 1994).

Huneke, Douglas. “A study of Christians who rescued Jews during the Nazi era.” Humboldt Journal of Social Relations, 9 (1): 144-149. (1981-1982).

London, Perry. “The rescuers: Motivational hypotheses about Christians who saved Jews from the Nazis.” In Macaulay, J., & Berkowitz, L. (Eds.), Altruism and Helping Behavior. (New York: Academic Press, 1970, 241-250.)

Oliner, Samuel P., and Pearl M. Oliner. The Altruistic Personality: Rescuers of Jews in Nazi Europe (New York: The Free Press, 1988).

Oliner, Pearl M., Oliner, Samuel P., Baron, Lawrence, Blum, Lawrence A., Krebs, Dennis L., & Smolenska, M. Zuzanna (Eds.), Embracing the Other: Philosophical, Psychological, and Historical Perspectives on Altruism. (New York: New York University Press, 1992

Oliner, Pearl M. Saving the Forsaken: Religious Culture and the Rescue of Jews in Nazi Europe (Yale University Press, 2005).

Oliner, Samuel P., assisted by Piotr Olaf Zylicz. Altruism, Intergroup Apology, Forgiveness and Reconciliation (St. Paul, MN: Paragon, 2008).

Pawlikowski, John T. The Catholic response to the Holocaust: Institutional perspectives.  In Berenbaum, Michael, and Abraham J. Peck (Eds.). The Holocaust and History: The Known, the Unknown, the Disputed, and the Reexamined, pp. 551-565. (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1998).

Phayer, Michael. The Catholic Church and the Holocaust, 1930-1965. (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2000).

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David Vital, A People Apart: A Political History of the Jews in Europe 1789–1939, Oxford University Press, 2001.


Jews in Poland

Dobroszycki, Lucjan (1994). Survivors of the Holocaust in Poland: A Portrait Based on Jewish Community Records, 1944–1947. Yivo Institute for Jewish Research, M.E. Sharpe. 

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Marcus, Joseph (1983). Social and political history of the Jews in Poland, 1919–1939. Walter de Gruyter.

Mushkat, Marion (1992). Philo-Semitic and anti-Jewish attitudes in post-Holocaust Poland. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press.

Pogonowski, Iwo (1997). Jews in Poland: A Documentary History. Hippocrene Books.

Segel, Harold B. (1996). Stranger in Our Midst: Images of the Jew in Polish Literature. Cornell University Press.

Schatz, Jaff (1991). The generation: the rise and fall of the Jewish communists of Poland. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Spector, Shmuel; Wigoder, Geoffrey (2001). The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust. Volume III. NYU Press.

Stopnicka Heller, Celia (1993). On the Edge of Destruction: Jews of Poland Between the Two World Wars. Wayne State University Press.

Vital, David. A People Apart: A Political History of the Jews in Europe 1789–1939, Oxford University Press, 2001.

Winstone, Martin (2014). Dark Heart of Hitler's Europe: Nazi Rule in Poland under the General Government.


Poland and World War II

Brzoza, Czesław, Sowa, Andrzej Leon, Historia Polski 1918–1945 [History of Poland: 1918–1945].

Chodakiewicz, Marek Jan. Between Nazis and Soviets: Occupation Politics in Poland, 1939–1947. Lanham: Lexington Books,

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Fritz, Stephen G. (2011). Ostkrieg: Hitler's War of Extermination in the East. University Press of Kentucky.

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Gross, Jan Tomasz (2002). Revolution from Abroad: The Soviet Conquest of Poland's Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia. Princeton University Press.

Kochanski, Halik. The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War. Harvard U.P., 2012. 

Koskodan, Kenneth K. No Greater Ally: The Untold Story of Poland's Forces in World War II, Osprey Publishing 2009.

Lerski, Jerzy Jan; Wróbel, Piotr; Kozicki, Richard J. (1996). Historical Dictionary of Poland, 966–1945. Greenwood Publishing Group.

Lukas, Richard C. Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles under German Occupation, 1939–1944 (3rd rev. ed.; N.Y., Hippocrene, 2012). 

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Materski, Wojciech; Szarota, Tomasz; IPN (2009). Poland 1939–1945. Human Losses and Victims of Repression Under Two Occupations [Polska 1939–1945.

Snyder, Timothy (October 2, 2012). Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. Basic Books. p. 218.

Stackelberg, Roderick (2007). The Routledge Companion to Nazi Germany. Routledge.

Steven J. Zaloga, Poland 1939: The birth of Blitzkrieg, Osprey Publishing 2002.

Work, Group (1947). "Sprawozdanie w przedmiocie strat i szkód wojennych Polski w latach 1939-1945" (eng. "Report on the losses and damages of war in Poland in 1939-1945") DJVU file (in Polish). Warszawa: Biuro Odszkodowań Wojennych.


General Studies of the Holocaust

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Arad, Yitzhak. The Pictorial History of the Holocaust. (New York: Macmillan, 1993).

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Bauer, Yehuda. American Jewry and the Holocaust: The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1939-45. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1981.

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Ben-Sasson, Havi (2017). Relations Between Jews and Poles During the Holocaust: The Jewish Perspective. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem.

Berenbaum, Michael. A Mosaic of Victims: Non-Jews Persecuted and Murdered by the Nazis. (New York: New York University Press, 1990).

Berenbaum, Michael. The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. (Boston: Little, Brown, 1993).

Bergen, Doris L. (2003). War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Breitman, Richard. Official Secrets: What the Nazis Planned, What the British and Americans Knew. (New York: Hill and Wang, 1998).

Browning, Christopher R. The Final Solution and the German Foreign Office: A Study of Referat D III of Abteilung Deutschland 1940-43. (New York: Holmes & Meier Publishers, 1978).

Browning, Christopher (2004). The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939 – March 1942. Comprehensive History of the Holocaust. With contributions by Jürgen Matthäus. London: Random House / William Heinemann; University of Nebraska Press 2007 [2004].

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Cooper, Leo (2000). In the shadow of the Polish eagle: the Poles, the Holocaust, and beyond. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, N.Y.: Palgrave.

Cymet, David (June 1999). "Polish state antisemitism as a major factor leading to the Holocaust". Journal of Genocide Research. 1 (2): 169–212.

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Eck, Nathan and Aryeh Leon Kubovy (Eds.). Yad Vashem Studies on the European Jewish Catastrophe and Resistance, Vol. VI. (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1967).

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Fein, Helen. Accounting for Genocide. (New York: Free Press, 1979).

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Friedlander, Saul. Nazi Germany and the Jews: The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939. (New York: HarperCollins, 1997).

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Gilbert, Martin. Never Again: A History of the Holocaust. (Universe, 2001).

Gossman, Eva. Good Beyond Evil. (Portland, OR: Vallentine Mitchell, 2002).

Jan Grabowski (2013). Hunt for the Jews: Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland. Indiana University Press. pp. 2–4.

Gross, Jan Tomasz. Revolution from Abroad: The Soviet Conquest of Poland's Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia, Princeton University Press, 2002.

Gross, Jan Tomasz. Polish Society under German Occupation: The Generalgouvernement, 1939–1944 (Princeton UP, 1979)

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Kochanski, Halik. The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War. Harvard U.P., 2012. 

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Lukas, Richard C. Forgotten Survivors: Polish Christians Remember the Nazi Occupation (1st ed.; Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2004). 

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Rescue in Poland in the Holocaust

Ainsztein, Jewish Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Eastern Europe, pp. 450–453.

Arad, Yitzhak.  “Jewish Family Camps in the Forests—An Original Means of Rescue.”  In Gutman, Y., and E. Zuroff (Eds.). Rescue Attempts during the Holocaust: Proceedings of the Second Yad Vashem International Historical Conference, Jerusalem, 3-11 April 1974. (Jerusalem, 1977), pp. 333-353.

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Bartoszewski, Władysław and Zofia Lewin, eds., Righteous Among Nations: How Poles Helped the Jews, 1939–1945, London: Earlscourt Publications, 1969.

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Ben-Sasson, Havi (2017). Relations Between Jews and Poles During the Holocaust: The Jewish Perspective. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem.

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Bogner, Nahum. “The convent children: The rescue of Jewish children in Polish convents during the Holocaust.” In Silberklang, David (Ed.), Yad Vashem Studies, Vol. XXVII. (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1999, 235-285).

Brethour, Miranda (2019). "Jewish–Gentile Relations in Hiding during the Holocaust in Sokołów County, Poland (1942–1944)". The Journal of Holocaust Research. 33 (4): 277–301 [299–300].

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Jan T. Gross. A Tangled Web: Confronting Stereotypes Concerning Relations between Poles, Germans, Jews, and Communists. In: István Deák, Jan Tomasz Gross, Tony Judt. The Politics of Retribution in Europe: World War II and Its Aftermath. Princeton University Press, 2000.

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Kolpanitzky, Kopel. Sentenced To Life: The Story of a Survivor of the Lahwah Ghetto, London and Portland, Oregon: Vallentine Mitchell, 2007.

Krakowski, Shmuel. "Difficulties in Rescue Attempts in Occupied Poland" (PDF). Yad Vashem Archives.

Kurek-Lesik, Ewa. “The role of Polish Nuns in the rescue of Jews, 1939-1945.” In Oliner, Pearl M., Oliner, Samuel P., Baron, Lawrence, Blum, Lawrence A., Krebs, Dennis L., & Smolenska, M. Zuzanna (Eds.), Embracing the Other: Philosophical, Psychological, and Historical Perspectives on Altruism. (New York: New York University Press, 1992, 328-334.)

Kurek-Lesik, Ewa. Your Life is Worth Mine: How Polish Nuns Saved Hundreds of Jewish Children in German-Occupied Poland, 1939-1945. (New York: Hippocrene, 1997).

Lukas, Richard C. (1989). Out of the Inferno: Poles Remember the Holocaust. University Press of Kentucky.

Lukas, Richard C. Did the Children Cry: Hitler's War Against Jewish and Polish Children, 1939–1945 (1st ed., N.Y., Hippocrene, 1994).

Lukas, Richard C. Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles under German Occupation, 1939–1944 (3rd rev. ed., N.Y., Hippocrene, 2012).

Oliner, Samuel P., and Pearl M. Oliner. The Altruistic Personality: Rescuers of Jews in Nazi Europe (New York: The Free Press, 1988).

Oliner, Pearl M., with statistical analysis by Jeanne Wielgus & Mary B. Gruber. Saving the Forsaken: Religious Culture and the Rescue of Jews in Nazi Europe. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004).

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Paldiel, Mordecai. Churches and the Holocaust: Unholy Teaching, Good Samaritans and Reconciliation. (Jersey City, NJ: KTAV Publishing House, Inc., 2006).

Paulsson, Gunnar S. (2004). The Demography of Jews in Hiding in Warsaw, 1943–1945. Originally in Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, volume 13 (2000), reprinted in: The Holocaust: Critical Concepts in Historical Studies.

Paulsson, Gunnar S. Roth, John K.; Maxwell, Elisabeth (eds.). Evading the Holocaust: The Unexplored Continent of Holocaust Historiography. Remembering for the Future: The Holocaust. Three-Volume Set, p. 257.  [Also, in:] Age of Genocide (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire and New York: Palgrave, 2001),

Paulsson, Gunnar S. (2003). Zimmerman, Joshua D. (ed.). Ringelblum Revisited: Polish-Jewish Relations in Occupied Warsaw, 1940–1945. Contested Memories: Poles and Jews during the Holocaust and Its Aftermath. New Brunswick, New Jersey and London: Rutgers University Press.

Paulsson, Gunnar S. Secret City: The Hidden Jews of Warsaw, 1940–1945 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002). Monograph.

Pawlikowski, John T. The Catholic response to the Holocaust: Institutional perspectives.  In Berenbaum, Michael, and Abraham J. Peck (Eds.). The Holocaust and History: The Known, the Unknown, the Disputed, and the Reexamined, pp. 551-565. (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1998).

Pawlikowski, John T. "Polish Catholics and the Jews during the Holocaust" in: Joshua D. Zimmerman, Contested Memories: Poles and Jews During the Holocaust and Its Aftermath, Rutgers University Press, 2003.

Phayer, Michael. The Catholic Church and the Holocaust, 1930-1965. (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2000).

Piotrowski, Tadeusz (1998). "Assistance to Jews". Poland's Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and Genocide in the Second Republic, 1918–1947. Jefferson, N.C., London: McFarland & Company.

Polonsky, Anthony. 'My Brother's Keeper?': Recent Polish Debates on the Holocaust, Routledge, 1990.

Polonsky, Anthony, "Beyond Condemnation, Apologetics and Apologies: On the Complexity of Polish Behavior Towards the Jews During the Second World War." In: Jonathan Frankel, ed. Studies in Contemporary Jewry 13. (1997).

Poray, Anna, "Saving Jews: Polish Righteous. Those Who Risked Their Liveswith photographs and bibliography, 2004.

Prekerowa, Teresa (1989) [1987]. Polonsky, Antony (ed.). The Just and the Passive. My Brother's Keeper? Recent Polish Debates on the Holocaust. Routledge.

Rejak, Sebastian; Frister, Elżbieta (2012). Inferno of Choices: Poles and the Holocaust RYTM, Warsaw 2011.

Rozett, Robert. “From Poland to Hungary: Rescue attempts 1943-1944.” Yad Vashem Studies, 24 (1994), 177-194.

Rothkirchen, Livia (Ed.). “Rescue efforts with the assistance of international organization: Documents from the archives of Dr. A. Silberschein.” Yad Vashem Studies, 8 (1970), 69-80.

Salmonowicz, Stanisław (1994). Polish Underground State: 1939–1945 [Polskie Państwo Podziemne: z dziejów walki cywilnej, 1939-45]. Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Szkolne i Pedagogiczne.

Tec, Nechama. When Light Pierced the Darkness: Christian Rescue of Jews in Nazi-Occupied Poland. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986).

Tec, Nechama. Resilience and Courage: Women, Men, and the Holocaust.

Tomaszewski, Irene and Tecia Werbowski. Zegota: The Rescue of Jews in Wartime Poland.  (Montreal, Canada: Price-Patterson, 1994).

Turowicz, Jerzy (1989). Polonsky, Antony (ed.). Polish reasons and Jewish reasons. My Brother's Keeper: Recent Polish Debates on the Holocaust. Routledge.

Urynowicz, Marcin “Zorganizowana i indywidualna pomoc Polaków dla ludności żydowskiej eksterminowanej przez okupanta niemieckiego w okresie drugiej wojny światowej” ("Poles' Organized and Individual Help to the Jewish Population Being Exterminated by the Occupying Germans during World War II"), in Andrzej Żbikowski, ed., Polacy i Żydzi pod okupacją niemiecką 1939–1945 (Poles and Jews under the German Occupation, 1939–1945), Warsaw, 2006, p. 225–26.

Walczak, Ryszard. (1997). Those Who Helped: Polish Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust. Warsaw: p. 51.

Weigler, Tsvi. "Two Polish Villages Razed for Extending Help to Jews and Partisans," Yad Vashem Bulletin, No. 1 (April 1957): pp. 19–20.

Zajączkowski, Wacław (June 1988). Christian Martyrs of Charity. Washington, D.C.: S.M. Kolbe Foundation. pp. 152–178 (1–14 of 25 in current document).   2015.

Żaryn, Jan. The Institute of National Remembrance, The “Life for a life” project - Poles who gave their lives to save Jews

Zielinski, Zygmunt. “Activities of Catholic orders on behalf of Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland.” In Kulka, Otto Dov, & Mendes-Flohr, Paul R. (Eds.), Judaism and Christianity Under the Impact of National Socialism. (Jerusalem: The Historical Society of Israel and the Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, 1987, 381-394.)

Zimmerman, Joshua D. Contested Memories: Poles and Jews During the Holocaust and Its Aftermath Rutgers University Press, 2003.

Zimmerman, Joshua D. "The Polish Underground Home Army (AK) and the Jews: What Survivor Memoirs and Testimonies Reveal" Yeshiva University.

Zimmerman, Joshua D. (2015). The Polish underground and the Jews, 1939-1945. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

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Reparations – Truth and Reconciliation

Darity, Jr., William A., & A. Kirsten Mullen. From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2020).

Maki, Metchell T., Harry H. L. Kitano, and S. Megan Berthold. Achieving the Impossible Dream: How Japanese Americans Obtained Redress (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1999).

This book has a section called “‘A More Perfect Union’: The Smithsonian Institution Exchibit” (pp. 157-160).  This deals with the exhibit that I curated on the Japanese American experience in World War II that was adapted for the Smithsonian.

Neiman, Susan. Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019).


Science of Human Behavior

American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5; American Psychiatric Association, 2013).

Biglan, Anthony. The Nurture Effect: How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives & Our World (Oakland, CA: New Harbinger, 2015).

Gregory, Richard L., ed. The Oxford Companion to the Mind (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987).

Lifton, Robert Jay (1986), The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide, Basic Books, p. 64.

Sapolsky, Robert M. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (New York: Penguin Press, 2017).

Perpetrators and Perpetration of Mass Violence: Action, Motivations and Dynamics, edited by Timothy Williams, Susanne Buckley-Zistel, Routledge.


Memory and the Holocaust

Andrieu, Claire, Sarah Gensburger, and Jacques Sémelin. Resisting Genocides: The Multiple Forms of Rescue (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011).

Apel, Dora. Memory Effects: The Holocaust and the Art of Secondary Witnessing (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2002).

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