Persecution Volume I Historia II wojna światowa

Persecution Volume I Historia II wojna światowa

This publication presents the preliminary results of work carried out within the ‘Index of Poles murdered or persecuted for helping Jews during World War II’ programme. The main and, at the same time, the overriding aim of the activities undertaken as part of the ‘Index’ project is to establish the names of Polish citizens of various ethnic origin not covered by the Nuremberg legislation, living in the territory of the Republic of Poland within the borders of 31 August 1939, who experienced persecution for helping Jews during World War II.

The present publication contains 333 short descriptions of the persecution of 654 individuals who helped Jewish people in occupied Polish territories. The term of persecution is meant as activities of the military and civil authorities of the Third Reich, including, in particular, courts and prosecutor’s offices, police and security services with co-operation of the Nazi party and its affiliated and collaborative organisations, against people who violated the rules of contact with Jewish population as stipulated by the occupier’s law.