Śmierć Zygmunta Weidlinga (z wprowadzeniem Konrada Matyjaszka)

In this testimony, Ewa Weinberg describes the circumstances of the death of Zygmunt Weidling, a physician and her close relative. He died in the summer of 1942 in Soviet Uzbekistan when he tried to obtain permission for his family to join an evacuation transport organised by the Polish Armed Forces in the USSR (General Anders’s Army); he was denied due to the antisemitic policyof the Army Staff. The author also describes her family’s living conditions in Samarkand during the war. Her text is a testimony of a Holocaust survivor and a commemoration of Zygmunt Weidling

Antisemitism · Holocaust survivors · Permission · The Holocaust · Central European Literary Studies · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies · Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies