- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Preface
- Polin
- Note on Place-Names
- Note on Transliteration
- The Sixtieth Anniversary of the Massacre in Jedwabne: Two Speeches Delivered in Jedwabne, 10 July 2001
-
Review Essays John Paul II on Jews and Judaism - Recent Developments in the Historiography of Silesian Jews
- A Review of Some Recent Issues of the Biuletyn Żydowskiego InstytutuHistorycznego
- Gates of Heaven
- Upside-Down History
- Book Reviews
- Edward Fram
- Chava Weissler
- David Assaf
- Sophia Kemlein
- Leszek Ziątkowski
- Naomi Seidman
- Olaf Bergmann
- Helena Bodek
- Rafael F. Scharf
- Michal Glowiński
- Daniel Tollet (ed), Les Vérités des uns et celles des autres: Points de vue de juifs et de chrétiens sur la Shoah en Pologne
- Irena F. Karafilly, Ashes and Miracles: A Polish Journey
- Obituaries Andrzej Szczypiorski
- Jerzy Turowicz
- Notes on the Contributors
- Glossary
- Index
Helena Bodek
Helena Bodek
Jak tropione zwierzęta
- Chapter:
- Helena Bodek
- Source:
- Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 14
- Author(s):
Joanna Rostropowicz Clarke
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
This chapter discusses Helena Bodek's Like Hounded Animals. This book describes a community in the small town of Żychlin, in the Płock region, and its fewer than 5,000 Jews. As the book shows, this community seems to have had relatively agreeable relations with their non-Jewish, Polish (with a scattering of German) neighbours. The train of events which Bodek relates, the patterns of behaviour of the Jewish victims and of the surrounding population, the atrocities committed by some of the Jewish policemen, the unkindness of some of her wealthier relatives (none of whom survived), and the kindness (rare, but not altogether exceptional) of strangers, including a few Germans — all are dreadfully familiar, generic to every Holocaust memoir. But the chapter asserts that the fact that we basically know, almost as well as the narrator, what is going to happen next does not in the least diminish our heart-wrenching interest in what is happening to this young woman and to her loved ones. When death reigns, the author compels us to acknowledge, life is dearer than ever.
Keywords: Holocaust memoir, Holocaust, Helena Bodek, Jak tropione zwierzęta, Żychlin, Jewish victims, book review
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Preface
- Polin
- Note on Place-Names
- Note on Transliteration
- The Sixtieth Anniversary of the Massacre in Jedwabne: Two Speeches Delivered in Jedwabne, 10 July 2001
-
Review Essays John Paul II on Jews and Judaism - Recent Developments in the Historiography of Silesian Jews
- A Review of Some Recent Issues of the Biuletyn Żydowskiego InstytutuHistorycznego
- Gates of Heaven
- Upside-Down History
- Book Reviews
- Edward Fram
- Chava Weissler
- David Assaf
- Sophia Kemlein
- Leszek Ziątkowski
- Naomi Seidman
- Olaf Bergmann
- Helena Bodek
- Rafael F. Scharf
- Michal Glowiński
- Daniel Tollet (ed), Les Vérités des uns et celles des autres: Points de vue de juifs et de chrétiens sur la Shoah en Pologne
- Irena F. Karafilly, Ashes and Miracles: A Polish Journey
- Obituaries Andrzej Szczypiorski
- Jerzy Turowicz
- Notes on the Contributors
- Glossary
- Index