Collaborators (chair: Mirosław Filipowicz) / Conference 'Aktion Reinhardt'

FRIDAY, JUNE 10
Place: Ośrodek „Brama Grodzka – Teatr NN”, ul. Grodzka 21

9.30-11.20 Collaborators (chair: Mirosław Filipowicz)
Tomasz Frydel, The Polish Blue Police and the Holocaust: Ordinary Men, Extraordinary State Violence

Peter Black, What Happened to the Trawniki Men?: Patterns of Existence After Trawniki

John-Paul Himka, Local Police in Distrikt Galizien and in Volhynia within the Reichskommissariat Ukraine: Their Role in the Holocaust

Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe, Polish Mayors and the Holocaust in the General Government

11.20-11.40 Coffee break

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On the 80th anniversary of the Operation Reinhardt, Jerzy Kłoczowski Laboratory of the Institute of East-Central Europe („Grodzka Gate - NN Theater” Center), the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies (Yale University) and the German Historical Institute in Warsaw organize a conference discussing the various stages of the extermination of Jews in different parts of the General Government.

We would like to discuss the indirect extermination in ghettos, the functioning of labor camps for Jews, the preparations for and course of the Operation Reinhardt in various districts (including deportation actions in selected ghettos), death camps in Bełżec, Sobibór and Treblinka, and finally the third stage of the extermination from three perspectives: perpetrators, victims and bystanders. Politics and education about the Holocaust will also be discussed.

Our goal is to present the most recent research and to outline the directions and perspectives of further academic inquiries. An important element of the conference will be the debates and discussions among researchers regarding the studies presented. A special moment of the conference will be the Lelewel Debate.

Transmission implementation: Karolina Kryczka-Kowalska