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The Participation of Poles in Crimes
Against Jews in the Świętokrzyskie Region
Article based primarily on an analysis
of hitherto unused trial records related to the so-called August
Decree of the PKWN (Polish Committee of National Liberation), which
was the basis for indictment of those suspected of committing crimes
against Jews or complicity in such crimes. Additional sources are
contemporary interviews with eyewitnesses of those events, known as
“Oral History”. The authors attempt to analyze the situation in
rural areas
in order to study, in this context, the typology of acts committed,
the perpetrators , passive participants and eyewitnesses. The
article contains rich sources to exemplify the events described. |
