The Gęsiówka story

Kossoy, Edward, 1913-2012
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Title The Gęsiówka story : a little known page of Jewish fighting history.
Original Library/publisher Yad Vashem Studies. Jerusalem
Polin
Studies in Polish Jewry. Oxford
Host Item Yad Vashem Studies 32 (2004) 323-350
Description After the suppression of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, the Germans initiated works to clear the ghetto ruins and to convert the area into a park. For this purpose, a camp was set up on Gęsia Street, which became known as the Gęsiówka camp. 3,683 Jewish prisoners - Greek, French, Belgian, and Dutch nationals - were sent to Gęsiówka from Auschwitz, supplemented with 50 Polish Jews and, later, another 120 Polish Jews from the Pawiak prison. In July 1944 the Nazis evacuated most of the prisoners, leaving ca. 400 Jews in the camp. When the Warsaw uprising began in August 1944, a battalion of the Armia Krajowa liberated the last 350 prisoners in Gęsiówka. Most of them then joined in the Warsaw uprising, and many fell in battle. Some Jewish fighters were killed by Polish insurgents - members of the rightist antisemitic group Narodowe Siły Zbrojne - while some Jewish survivors of the uprising were hidden and helped by Poles. In 1994 a memorial inscription was unveiled near the former Gęsiówka site. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
An abridged version appeared as "The Gęsiówka story
a little-known page of Jewish resistance" in "Polin" 17 (2004) 353-361
In Hebrew:
"יד ושם
קובץ מחקרים" לב (תשסד) 261-284
Language English
Credits באדיבות יש ושם – רשות הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה Courtesy of Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
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