Facing a Holocaust The Polish Government-in-exile and the Jews, 1943-1945

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English | ISBN: 0807820695 | | 328 pages | PDF | 19 MB
Engel’s study will be the definitive statement on one dimension of a very complex problem: the relations between Jews and their countrymen in occupied Poland.-Central European History

"A superb piece of scholarship that is impeccably researched and most elegantly written as well.-Jan T. Gross, New York University
Within this book, Engel concludes his exploration of the Polish government-in-exile’s shifting responses toward the plight of European Jews during the Second World War. He focuses on the years 1943-45, the critical period after the free world became fully aware of Nazi Germany’s plan to destroy the Jews, and shows that the Polish government-in-exile, with its vast underground organization, was a prime target of Jewish rescue appeals. This book is the sequel to Engel’s
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