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Clear AllEdited by Sharon Kangisser Cohen
Table of Contents: • Introduction • Michael Robert Marrus (1941-2022)—In Memoriam (Doris Bergen) • The Polish Underground State and the Financing of Help for the Jews: An Attempt at a New Approach (Dariusz Libionka) • News from Auschwitz: The International Underground’s Secret Reports and the Jewish Holocaust (Tom Navon) • Bandera, Genocide, and Justice: Was Stepan Bandera Responsible for Crimes Committed by the OUN and the UPA? (Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe) • Politics of Holocaust Memory in Communist and Post-Communist Romania: On Survivor Matei Gall’s Multiple Life Stories (Ștefan Cristian Ionescu and Dana Mihăilescu)
Menachem Katz relates his escape from the mowing down of the last Jews of Brzezany at the cemetery in 1943 through his experiences hiding in a bunker with seven other people. He describes life in hiding in detail as well as the relathionship with a family of Poles who assisted them in survival, and relates the severe difficulties of daily existence in the closed and crowded spaces. alongsode some moments of humor. Katz succeeded in locating members of the Polish family that saved him, and they were honored as Righteous Among the Nations.