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Show Notes:
2:45 inspiration for her career as a historian of the Holocaust and Polish Jewish history
4:30 American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
6:50 Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (the Claims Conference)
8:00 Claims Conference’s work on behalf of elderly survivors
10:00 current issues blocking claims that she’s encountered and how they differ between countries
12:00 history of the plunder and anti-restitution approach/laws in Poland
16:00 definition of who is a survivor for restitution purposes, e.g., exclusion of Jews who were in hiding during WWII from receiving pensions
17:45 lack of understanding and education about the gravity of the theft and restitution issues from WWII
19:00 claims like Menachem Kaiser
20:20 attitudes and behaviors towards Holocaust survivors and why claims are still ongoing
23:00 heirless property
24:00 JUST Act report’s findings on Poland about archives
26:00 It Is Still Night authors Historian Jan Grabowski and Professor Barbara Engelking
30:00 pursuit of the ‘Politics of Memory’ by the current government in Poland, Law and Justice as a distortion of Holocaust history
35:00 example of how Holocaust history is distorted: Poland’s commemoration of a Polish railway worker who is said to have given water to Jews in boxcars en route to Treblinka versus acknowledging Poles who robbed Jews in boxcars in exchange for water
41:00 Jewish Childhood in Kraków: A Microhistory of the Holocaust
43:45 historical drama film Schindler’s List
45:45 Children With a Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe by Deborah Dwork
47:00 Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Mathematician Who Rescued Poles during the Holocaust co-authored with Dr. Elizabeth (Barry) White, expert on Majdanek Concentration Camp
52:00 genealogy methods supplemented research for Counterfeit Countess
56:15 The Beginning of the Holocaust in Poland 1939-1941? Other upcoming projects?
59:15 how Dr. Sliwa defines justice and how she sees her work facilitating justice
1:30:00 Dr. Sliwa’s hope for her legacy: to educate and inspire future scholars of all genocide
Please share your comments and/or questions at [email protected]
Music by Toulme.
To hear more episodes, please visit Warfare of Art and Law podcast's website.
To leave questions or comments about this or other episodes of the podcast and/or for information about joining the 2ND Saturday discussion on art, culture and justice, please message me at [email protected].
Thanks so much for listening!
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To learn more, please visit the website for Ms. Sliwa.
Show Notes:
2:45 inspiration for her career as a historian of the Holocaust and Polish Jewish history
4:30 American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
6:50 Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (the Claims Conference)
8:00 Claims Conference’s work on behalf of elderly survivors
10:00 current issues blocking claims that she’s encountered and how they differ between countries
12:00 history of the plunder and anti-restitution approach/laws in Poland
16:00 definition of who is a survivor for restitution purposes, e.g., exclusion of Jews who were in hiding during WWII from receiving pensions
17:45 lack of understanding and education about the gravity of the theft and restitution issues from WWII
19:00 claims like Menachem Kaiser
20:20 attitudes and behaviors towards Holocaust survivors and why claims are still ongoing
23:00 heirless property
24:00 JUST Act report’s findings on Poland about archives
26:00 It Is Still Night authors Historian Jan Grabowski and Professor Barbara Engelking
30:00 pursuit of the ‘Politics of Memory’ by the current government in Poland, Law and Justice as a distortion of Holocaust history
35:00 example of how Holocaust history is distorted: Poland’s commemoration of a Polish railway worker who is said to have given water to Jews in boxcars en route to Treblinka versus acknowledging Poles who robbed Jews in boxcars in exchange for water
41:00 Jewish Childhood in Kraków: A Microhistory of the Holocaust
43:45 historical drama film Schindler’s List
45:45 Children With a Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe by Deborah Dwork
47:00 Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Mathematician Who Rescued Poles during the Holocaust co-authored with Dr. Elizabeth (Barry) White, expert on Majdanek Concentration Camp
52:00 genealogy methods supplemented research for Counterfeit Countess
56:15 The Beginning of the Holocaust in Poland 1939-1941? Other upcoming projects?
59:15 how Dr. Sliwa defines justice and how she sees her work facilitating justice
1:30:00 Dr. Sliwa’s hope for her legacy: to educate and inspire future scholars of all genocide
Please share your comments and/or questions at [email protected]
Music by Toulme.
To hear more episodes, please visit Warfare of Art and Law podcast's website.
To leave questions or comments about this or other episodes of the podcast and/or for information about joining the 2ND Saturday discussion on art, culture and justice, please message me at [email protected].
Thanks so much for listening!
© Stephanie Drawdy [2025]
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