During the Second World War, Polish mayors were a key group of officials in the administrative apparatus of the ‘General Government’. Together with the
German district and city captains, they shaped local politics and were
heavily involved in the persecution and murder of Polish and European Jews.
Based on extensive archival research, Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe
presents selected Polish mayors in his book Polish Mayors and the Holocaust: Occupation, Administration and Collaboration (2024) and shows how they behaved during the Second World War. The analysis includes small towns such as Otwock, medium-sized towns such as Częstochowa and metropolises such as Warsaw.
Greetings:
Robert Parzer, German-Polish House
Dr. Stefanie Fischer, Centre for Research on Anti-Semitism
Book presentation:
PD Dr. Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe, Berlin
Reading:
Laura Stöbener, Berlin
Moderator:
Dr. Markus Nesselrodt, European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder
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About the book:
Polish mayors were an important group of officials in the administrative apparatus of the General Government. Together with the German district and city captains, they shaped local politics and were significantly involved in the persecution and murder of Polish and European Jews as well as in the exploitation of the General Government. Based on extensive archival research and new contextualisations, this book presents selected Polish mayors and shows how they behaved during the Second World War. The analysis includes small towns such as Otwock, medium-sized towns such as Częstochowa, and metropolises such as Warsaw. With this study, Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe presents a standard work that provides an indispensable basis for research into local government during the Holocaust.
© Buchcover von: Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe, Polnische Bürgermeister und der Holocaust
© De Gruyter Brill
Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe is Alfred Landecker Lecturer and private lecturer for modern and contemporary history at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute of the Free University of Berlin. His publications include the book Stepan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist: Fascism, Genocide and Cult (2014) as well as anthologies, special issues and articles on the Holocaust in Eastern Central Europe, transnational fascism in Western and Eastern Europe, and the history of multi-ethnic cities. He received his habilitation at the Free University of Berlin with the present study.
© Photograph: Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe
Laura Stöbener is a historian and has worked in the field of transatlantic academic exchange and on exhibition projects, most recently at the Foundation for the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe.
© Photograph: Marko Priske
Dr. Markus Nesselrodt is a research assistant at the Faculty of Cultural Studies at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder. His publications include the volume Dem Holocaust entkommen. Polnische Juden in der Sowjetunion, 1939–1946 (Escaping the Holocaust: Polish Jews in the Soviet Union, 1939–1946) (2019).
© Photograph: European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder
The Topography of Terror Foundation, the German-Polish House and the Centre for Research on Anti-Semitism at the Technical University of Berlin (ZfA) invite you to this book presentation.
