Polish – Jewish Relations: A Historical Perspective and Contemporary View

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Websites

Facing History and Ourselves (2022a). Survival in Hiding, https://www.facinghistory.org/holocaust-and-human-behavior/chapter-9/survival-hiding (accessed August 17, 2022).

Facing History and Ourselves (2022b). The war on Jews in Poland, https://www.facinghistory.org/holocaust-and-human-behavior/chapter-8/war-jews-poland (accessed August 17, 2022).

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ORGANIZATIONAL AND OTHER WEBSITES [All Accessed August 16-17, 2022]

Chevra Lomdei Mishnayot Synagogue (Oswiecim, Poland), https://ajcf.pl/sklep/en/chevra-lomdei-mishnayot-synagogue/

E.R. Kaminska State Yiddish Theater (Warsaw, Poland), https://www.contemporaryposters.com/category.php?Category_ID=304

Jewish Historical Institute (Warsaw, Poland), https://www.jhi.pl/en

Judaica Foundation (Krakow, Poland), https://krakow.wiki/judaica-foundation/

Oswiecim State Museum (Auschwitz Birkenau Museum), https://www.auschwitz.org/en/

POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, https://polin.pl/en

Ronald Lauder Foundation, https://lauderfoundation.com/

Stara Synagogue (Krakow, Poland), https://muzeumkrakowa.pl/en/branches/old-synagogue

Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture, https://taubecenter.org/

March of the Living, https://www.motl.org/

General (Non-Cited) References

Davies, N. (2001). Heart of Europe. The past in Poland’s present. New York/Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Dziwisz, S. (2007). A life with Karol. New York: Doubleday.

Europe: The past in Poland’s present. New York: Oxford University Press.

Halecki, O. (1992). A history of Poland. New York: Barnes & Noble.

Karski, J. (1944). Story of a secret state. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.

Ury, S. (2012). Barricades and banners: The revolution of 1905 and the transformation of Warsaw Jewry. Redwood, Cal.: Stanford University Press.