Polish Redemptorists saving Jews and Jewish religious heritage during the Holocaust Cover Image

Redemptoryści polscy ratujący Żydów i żydowskie dziedzictwo religijne w obliczu Holokaustu
Polish Redemptorists saving Jews and Jewish religious heritage during the Holocaust

Author(s): Maciej Sadowski
Subject(s): Studies in violence and power, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), History of the Holocaust
Published by: Warszawska Prowincja Redemptorystów
Keywords: Redemptorists; Jews; Holocaust; Franciszek Świątek; Marian Pirożyński;

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt to answer how Polish Redemptorists joined in saving Jews and their religious heritage in the era of the Holocaust. The study presented uses sources from both church and state archives along with available literature on the subject. The study discusses the involvement of individual communities and Redemptorist confreres who undertake the work of helping Jews in Warsaw, Tuchów, Mościska and Vilnius, as well as the particularly interesting and hitherto unknown in historiography case of the secret storage of the Torah from the synagogue in Dąbrowa Tarnowska by Redemptorists from community of Tuchów.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 21
  • Page Range: 181-196
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish
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