Maria Ferenc
Biographic Data
| ID | 1479563 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Ferenc |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Ferenc |
| SIGNATURE | FERENC M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warsaw |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4937-9563 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
‘Between us and them there still stands a wall’
This chapter discusses the fate of approximately 3,800 Jewish deportees from various German cities who arrived in the Warsaw ghetto in April 1942. It examines how their arrival challenged the ghetto’s social structures and its internal social dynamics and resulted in the sudden increased involvement of the German administration in the internal affairs of the ghetto. For many Polish Jews, the arrival of German Jews underlined the ‘east European’ c…
“It was not the will to live that drove me…”
This article examines a pivotal moment during the Holocaust among the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto—the return to Warsaw of eyewitness survivors who managed to escape from the Treblinka death camp during summer and autumn 1942. These individuals, who had personally witnessed the atrocities, were fueled by a profound sense of duty to attest to the horrors of the extermination camp, and thus they sought to inform and caution the remaining Jewish popula…
Each Day the Ghetto Has to Find Consolation in Something
This article analyzes the phenomenon of false news circulating in theWarsaw ghetto in the critical period of the first months of 1942. At that time, members of the underground and ordinary people learned about the mass extermination of Jews in other towns and provinces of German-occupied Poland. The first part of the article discusses production of false news as a response tomarket demand for optimistic "breaking news" that strengthened the hope …
‘Listening Became Indispensable for Life … ’ Strategies and Goals of Radio Monitoring in the Warsaw Ghetto
In the beginning of the German occupation of Poland in 1939, press censorship and a strict ban on radio listening were imposed. Poles and ghettos-imprisoned Jews could obtain international information by reading German-controlled newspapers or, alternatively, by reading the clandestine press or listen to rumours. This article stresses the significance of information distributed by activists of Hashomer Hatzair, Zionist, leftist youth movement, wh…
Isle of death”
Cet article se propose d’étudier les dynamiques démographiques de la population juive du ghetto de Varsovie pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. La transformation démographique du ghetto avant la déportation massive de 1942 vers le camp de Treblinka et le début de l’extermination des juifs a été placée au cœur de l’article, qui porte sur trois aspects des mutations sociales et de leurs expressions démographiques : la mortalité, l’évolution des pos…
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‘Listening Became Indispensable for Life … ’ Strategies and Goals of Radio Monitoring in the Warsaw Ghetto
In the beginning of the German occupation of Poland in 1939, press censorship and a strict ban on radio listening were imposed. Poles and ghettos-imprisoned Jews could obtain international information by reading German-controlled newspapers or, alternatively, by reading the clandestine press or listen to rumours. This article stresses the significance of information distributed by activists of Hashomer Hatzair, Zionist, leftist youth movement, wh…
Isle of death”
Cet article se propose d’étudier les dynamiques démographiques de la population juive du ghetto de Varsovie pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. La transformation démographique du ghetto avant la déportation massive de 1942 vers le camp de Treblinka et le début de l’extermination des juifs a été placée au cœur de l’article, qui porte sur trois aspects des mutations sociales et de leurs expressions démographiques : la mortalité, l’évolution des pos…
Each Day the Ghetto Has to Find Consolation in Something
This article analyzes the phenomenon of false news circulating in theWarsaw ghetto in the critical period of the first months of 1942. At that time, members of the underground and ordinary people learned about the mass extermination of Jews in other towns and provinces of German-occupied Poland. The first part of the article discusses production of false news as a response tomarket demand for optimistic "breaking news" that strengthened the hope …
“It was not the will to live that drove me…”
This article examines a pivotal moment during the Holocaust among the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto—the return to Warsaw of eyewitness survivors who managed to escape from the Treblinka death camp during summer and autumn 1942. These individuals, who had personally witnessed the atrocities, were fueled by a profound sense of duty to attest to the horrors of the extermination camp, and thus they sought to inform and caution the remaining Jewish popula…
‘Between us and them there still stands a wall’
This chapter discusses the fate of approximately 3,800 Jewish deportees from various German cities who arrived in the Warsaw ghetto in April 1942. It examines how their arrival challenged the ghetto’s social structures and its internal social dynamics and resulted in the sudden increased involvement of the German administration in the internal affairs of the ghetto. For many Polish Jews, the arrival of German Jews underlined the ‘east European’ c…
History (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · German (3 works) · Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies (3 works) · European history and politics (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Active listening (1 work)