Survivors of the Holocaust in Poland : a portrait based on Jewish community records, 1944-1947 /

This is the first of three volumes in which Dobroszycki proposes to analyze the fate of post-Holocaust Polish Jewry. It is honest and thorough in attempting to ascertain the number of Jewish survivors and returnees to Poland. The author finds that out of 3,500,000 Polish Jews only 230,000 resided in the country in 1946. The largest group of Holocaust survivors actually came from Eastern Poland, Jews that were deported to Siberia in 1940. The Jewish population after the war was in flux, so the author recognizes that no single work can claim to present the whole truth about the survivors. No sooner had the Jews returned to Poland than they were on the move again. Even many of those Jews who returned to Poland soon emigrated to Israel, Western Europe, and the US. This statistical work, basically a compendium of documents and population tables, demonstrates high scholarship and devotion. An index or at least a table of tables would have been helpful. For Holocaust studies research centers. A. Ezergailis; Ithaca College