POLISH  VERSION 

March 23-24, 2009 marks the day that the Institute of National Remembrance hosts an international scientific conference dedicated to the Polish and Jewish resistance movement under the German occupation in the years 1939 – 1945.

The conference will take place in Warsaw’s Holiday Inn at Złota street 48/52 (1st floor, Scherzo hall). The sessions will be held in Polish and English, with simultaneous translation available. Entry is free of charge.

Additional information: Anna Piekarska, e-mail: anna.piekarska@ipn.gov.pl

Program

 

Monday, 23 March 2009

 

9.00–9.30 – Opening of the conference

 

Session One – Chair: Prof. Jan Żaryn

 

9.30–9.50 – Adam Puławski, The Union of Armed Combat–Home Army (ZWZ/AK), the Government Delegate’s Office at Home, and the Polish Government in Exile vis-à-vis the extermination of the Jewish population in Poland in 1942.

 

9.50–10.10 – Dr Janusz Gmitruk, The Peasants’ Movement vis-à-vis the extermination of the Polish Jews during the Second World War.

 

10.10–10.30 – Dr Piotr Gontarczyk, The underground Polish Workers’ Party vis-à-vis the Jews, 1942–1945.

 

10.30–11.10 – Discussion

 

11.10–11.30 – Coffee break

 

Session Two – Chair: Dr Elżbieta Rączy

 

11.30–11.50 – Dr Marcin Urynowicz, Judenrats and the issue of active resistance.

 

11.50–12.10 – Dr Piotr Kendziorek, The underground press of the Warsaw Ghetto as an instrument of political activity of the Jewish resistance movement.

 

12.10–12.30 – Witold Mędykowski, Uneven victims, uneven struggle: The crossroads of the Polish and Jewish resistance movements during the German occupation.

 

12.30–13.10 – Discussion

 

13.10–15.10 – Lunch break

 

Session Three – Chair: Dr Dariusz Libionka

 

15.10–15.30 – Prof. John Radziłowski, Ejszyszki and the historiography of ethnic conflicts in northeastern Poland in the years 1939–1945.

 

15.30–15.50 – Dr Yevgenii Rozenblat, Jewish participation it the anti-Nazi underground and partisan movement in Belarus in the years 1941–1944.

 

15.50–16.10 – Dr Bogdan Musiał, Against the common enemy: Soviet partisans and the Jews under the German occupation in Belarus  in the years 1941–1944.

 

16.10–16.50 – Discussion

 

16.50–17.10 – Coffee break

 

17.10–18.30 – Panel discussion: Poles in the armed underground vis-à-vis the Holocaust.

Moderator: Prof. Grzegorz Berendt; Speakers: Dr Piotr Gontarczyk, Dr Dariusz Libionka, Leszek Żebrowski.

 

 

Tuesday, 24 March 2009

 

Session Four – Chair: Prof. Grzegorz Berendti

 

10.00–10.20 – Alina Skibińska, Jews in the Home Army. An episode in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski.

 

10.20–10.40 – Dr Dariusz Libionka, The poor Home Army soldiers look at the liquidation of the ghettos (the example of the Warsaw district).

 

10.40–11.10 – Discussion

 

11.10–11.30 – Coffee break

 

Session Five – Chair: Dr Aleksandra Namysło

 

11.30–11.50 – Patricia Romerstein, Prof. Herbert Romerstein, The Abandonment of the Poles and Jews – Soviet Intelligence Operations Against Polish-Americans, Jewish-Americans, and others Who Tried to Help the Victims of Nazism.

 

11.50–12.10 – Dr Elżbieta Rączy, The Holocaust in the Rzeszów region in the light of Home Army’s reports.

 

12.10–12.30 – Piotr Szopa, The Polish Underground State in the Rzeszów region vis-à-vis the crimes committed on Jews.

 

12.30–13.20 – Discussion

 

13.20–15.20 – Lunch break

 

Session Six – Chair: Dr Marcin Urynowicz

 

15.20–15.40 – Dr Edyta Gawron, The Jewish resistance movement in Cracow in the context of invigilation and Gestapo repressions.

 

15.40–16.00 – Dr Aleksandra Namysło, Self-salvation or self-defense? The Jewish youth of Zagłębie Dąbrowskie and their attitude towards the realities of the German occupation.

 

16.00–16.20 – Prof. Grzegorz Berendt, Poles and Jews in Gdańsk region in the face of the German brutality in the years 1939–1941.

 

16.20–17.00 – Discussion

 

17.00–17.30 – Conclusion and closing of the conference