Abstract
This book is the first to deal with the impact on the Jews of the area of the sovietization of Eastern Poland. Polish resentment at alleged Jewish collaboration with the Soviets between 1939 and 1941 affected the development of Polish-Jewish relations under Nazi rule and in the USSR. The role of these conflicts both in the Anders army and in the Communist-led Kosciuszko division and 1st Polish Army is investigated, as well as the part played by Jews in the communist-dominated regime in Poland after 1944.
The Sovietisation of western Urkaine and western Byelorussia / Jan Tomasz Gross -- Some economic and social problems of the Jews of eastern Galicia in the period of Soviet rule (1939-41) / Aharon Weiss -- The Jews in Soviet-occupied eastern Poland at the end of 1939 : numbers and distribution / Maciej Siekierski -- Jewish issues in the Polish literature of exile in the USSR / Henryk Siewierski -- Sovietisation and the Jewish response to Nazi policies of mass murder / Ben-Cion Pinchuk -- Jewish resistance in small towns of eastern Poland / Shmuel Spector -- The welfare of Polish-Jewish refugees in the USSR, 1941-43 : relief supplies and their distribution / Keith Sword -- The Jewish issue in the Polish army in the USSR and the Near East, 1941-44 / Ryszard Terlecki -- The Polish government-in-exile and the Erlich-Alter affair / David Engel -- Jews in the Kościuszko Division and First Polish Army / Klemens Nussbaum -- The road to new Poland : Jewish communists in the Soviet Union, 1939-46 / Wlodzimierz Rozenbaum -- Polish-Jewish refugees repatriated from the Soviet Union to Poland at the end of the Second World War and afterwards / Yosef Litvak -- The 'Jewish Organising Committee' in Moscow and "The Jewish Central Committee' in Warsaw, June 1945-February 1946: tackling repatriation / Hanna Shlomi.