Szymon Datner

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Szymon Datner

Szymon Datner (

region. His 1946 Walka i zagłada białostockiego ghetta was one of the first studies of the Białystok Ghetto.[2]

Life to 1945

In 1928 Datner settled in Białystok.[3] Before the outbreak of World War II, he worked as a physical-education teacher at a Jewish secondary school in Białystok. He lived in that city with his wife and two daughters through the Soviet occupation of eastern Poland. After the German attack on the Soviet Union, he was forced with his family into the Białystok Ghetto. On 24 May 1943 he helped smuggle several persons out of the Ghetto. However, his wife and daughters did not survive its liquidation.[citation needed]

Postwar career

After the war, Datner served for two years as head of the Białystok branch of the

Central Committee of Jews in Poland (CŻKH). "A survivor himself, he deposited his own testimony at the Jewish Historical Commission in Białystok on 28 September 1946."[4]

The same year, the CŻKH published his Walka i zagłada Białostockiego Ghetta (The Struggle and Destruction of the Białystok Ghetto).

Jewish extraction, he was dismissed from his post during the 1968 Polish political crisis
but was rehabilitated soon after.

In 1969–70 he presided over

war crimes and atrocities in eastern Poland.[6] In 1966 he published an article on "The Extermination of the Jewish Population in the District of Bialystok" (mentioning the Jedwabne pogrom); however, due to censorship in the Polish People's Republic he could not write on killing of Jews by Poles.[4][7] Andrzej Żbikowski [pl] states that Datner wrote in similar vain to authors engaging in "heroic-martyrological discourse".[8] Alexander B. Rossino names Datner as the eminent historian of Wehrmacht war crimes in Poland.[9]

Family

His daughter is Helena Datner [pl], Polish historian and sociologist specialising in the social history of Polish Jews and the anti-semitism in Poland.

Death

Datner died in 1989 in

Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery
.

Publications

  • Walka i Zagłada białostockiego getta (Łódź, 1946)
  • Zbrodnie Wehrmachtu na jeńcach wojennych w II wojnie światowej (Warsaw, 1961)
  • Zbrodnie okupanta w czasie powstania warszawskiego w 1944 roku (w dokumentach) (Warsaw, 1962)
  • Wilhelm Koppe - nieukarany zbrodniarz hitlerowski (Warsaw-Poznań, 1963)
  • Ucieczki z niewoli niemieckiej 1939-1945 (Warsaw, 1966)
  • Eksterminacja ludności żydowskiej w Okręgu Białostockim (Bulletin of the Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw, October–December 1966, no. 60: pp. 3–29)
  • Niemiecki okupacyjny aparat bezpieczeństwa w okręgu białostockim (1941–1944) w świetle materiałów niemieckich (opracowania Waldemara Macholla), Biuletyn GKBZH (Warsaw, 1965)
  • 55 dni Wehrmachtu w Polsce (Warsaw, 1967)
  • Las sprawiedliwych. Karta z dziejów ratownictwa Żydow w okupowanej Polsce ( Warsaw, 1968)
  • Tragedia w Doessel - (ucieczki z niewoli niemieckiej 1939-1945 ciąg dalszy) (Warsaw, 1970)
  • Z mądrości Talmudu (Warsaw, 1988)

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-253-01087-2
    .
  2. ^ Aleksiun - 2004 - Polish Historiography of the Holocaust—Between Silence and Public Debate.pdf, retrieved 2018-01-29
  3. ^ a b Poczykowski, Radosław & Katarzyna Niziołek. "Szymon Datner (1902-1989)". Szlak Dziedzictwa Żydowskiego w Białymstoku. Uniwersytet w Białymstoku. Retrieved 10 May 2011.
  4. ^
    ISBN 0-8101-2370-3. Retrieved 10 May 2011. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help
    )
  5. ^ "Datner o zbrodniach hitlerowskich na Żydach zbiegłych z gett - Muzeum Historii Polski". muzhp.pl.
  6. ^ Bernd Wegner (1997), From Peace to War: Germany, Soviet Russia, and the World, 1939-1941, Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt, Berghahn Books, Germany, p. 54
  7. S2CID 142940545
    . Retrieved 2018-06-25.
  8. S2CID 212905113
    .
  9. ^ Hitler Strikes Poland: litzkrieg, Ideology, and Atrocity - Page 185 Alexander B. Rossino · University Press of Kansas 2003

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