Shmuel Krakowski
Shmuel Krakowski, Samuel Krakowski or Stefan Krakowski
Biography
Krakowski was born in
Krakowski returned to Poland where he joined the structures of the new Polish communist government in 1945, taking the entry courses for the
In 1966 Krakowski requested and was given a leave of active service.[2] Later he worked in the Museum of the History of the Polish Revolutionary Movement in Warsaw and subsequently in the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw.[3]
Following the 1968 Polish political crisis and a related antisemitic Polish government campaign, Krakowski moved to Israel.[3]
In Israel
In Israel Krakowski worked at the Yad Vashem Archives from 1968 until his retirement in 1993.[3] He received a doctorate from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[3] His PhD thesis was about the armed Jewish resistance to the General Government. This research won Krakowski the 1975 Yitzhak Sadeh Prize for military research.[4] Krakowski also taught courses at the Tel Aviv University.[3]
During Krakowski's tenure as the director of the Yad Vashem archives, the volume of them tripled and the relations with the office of investigations of Nazi crimes at Ludwigsburg, Germany, were strengthened. He was involved in improving the contents related to reports of Nazi war criminals, including the files of the Soviet commission of investigation of Nazi crimes and the archives of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee that operated during the war in the Soviet Union.[4] Krakowski initiated the connection with the Soviet archives and, when they became accessible, also initiated their photocopying and integration with Yad Vashem archives.[4]
After his retirement as director of the archives, Krakowski continued to be an adviser to the archives for about five years. Later, he was a researcher and an adviser at the
Works
- The War of the Doomed: Jewish Armed Resistance in Poland, 1942–1944 (1984)[5]
- Unequal Victims: Poles and Jews During World War Two (1988 with Yisrael Gutman)[6]
- Chelmno, A Small Village in Europe: The First Nazi Mass Extermination Camp (2009)[7]
References
- ISBN 978-0-19-972771-1.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Biuletyn Informacji Publicznej Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej". katalog.bip.ipn.gov.pl. Retrieved 2018-10-15.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Yad Vashem mourns the passing of Dr. Shmuel Krakowski, the former Director of the Yad Vashem Archives | www.yadvashem.org". www.yadvashem.org. Retrieved 2018-10-11.
- ^ a b c d "שמואל קרקובסקי | www.yadvashem.org". www.yadvashem.org (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2018-10-18.
- OCLC 9970421. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
- OCLC 16579136. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
- OCLC 369144029. Retrieved 20 November 2018.