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“Although the climate is good…” Polish Jews Interned in Jamaica between 1942 and 1945
Agnieszka Haska
ahaska@ifispan.edu.pl Biosociologist, cultural anthropologist, member of the Polish Center for Holocaust Research of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Her research interests cover a broad area of topics – from the history of rescuing Jews thanks to foreign passports, through analysis of discourse on collaboration during World War II to an anthropological perspective of memory and post-memory. Author of: “Jestem Żydem, chcę wejść”. Hotel Polski w Warszawie 1943 (2006) and Hańba! Opowieści o polskiej zdradzie (2018)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0545-5250
Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 17 (2021), pages: 295-309
Publication date: 2021-12-20
Abstract
The article is an introduction to the history of Polish Jews who, as a result of the agreement of the Polish and British Governments in 1942, landed in Jamaica, where they were placed in the in the Gibraltar internment camp. On their way to Jamaica, they were were under the impression that was the place where they could live and work as normally as possible. But the reality turned out to be disappointing, something that was reflected in letters of the interned which were sent to Ignacy Schwarzbart attached to this text, member of the National Council of the Republic of Poland in exile.
Keywords
Polish Jews, refugees, Jamaica, Gibraltar Camp
References
Źródła archiwalne / Archival Sources
Archiwum Akt Nowych
Instytut Hoovera, Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych, sygn. 154, 529, 545
Archiwum Yad Vashem
M.2, Archive of Dr. I. Schwarzbart, member of the Polish National Council in Exile, London, sygn. 403
Publikacje / Publications
Cooper-Clark Diana, Dreams of Re-Creation in Jamaica: The Holocaust, Internment, Jewish Refugees in Gibraltar Camp, Jamaican Jews and Sephardim, Altona: FriesenPress, 2017.
Mann Fred, A Drastic Turn of Destiny, Toronto: The Azrieli Foundation, 2009.
Newman Joanna, Nearly the New World. The British West Indies and the Flight from Nazism, 1933–1945, New York: Berghahn, 2019.
Patek Artur, Żydowscy zesłańcy na Mauritius 1930–1945 [w:] Amerykomania. Księga jubileuszowa ofiarowana Profesorowi Andrzejowi Mani, t. 2, red. Włodzimierz Bernacki, Adam Walaszek, Kraków: Wydawnictwo UJ, 2012.
Rebecca Tortello, Gibraltar Camp, „The Jamaica Gleaner”, 7 listopada 2005, https://old.jamaica-gleaner.com/pages/history/story0069.html.
W obliczu Zagłady. Rząd RP na uchodźstwie wobec Żydów 1939–1945, red. Piotr Długołęcki, Warszawa: PISM, 2021.
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