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- ISBN 9781041400349
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Nov 2026
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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On 6 September 1939 the German army invaded Kraków and the lives of the 60,000 Jewish residents changed forever. Among those who became members of ‘Źegota’, the Polish underground organization which provided aid to Jews, were Miriam Peleg-Mariańska and Mordecai Peleg, a young couple of striking Aryan looks and impeccable spoken Polish. Witnesses is their story, a story unique in the fact that this husband-and-wife team were themselves Jewish. The German occupation of Poland still plagues Polish-Jewish relations and the authors’ testimony allows us to draw as true a conclusion as possible about the interaction between Poles and Jews. The testimony of Miriam Peleg- Mariańska and Mordecai Peleg stands as an enduring tribute to courage in the face of evil and has continued relevance in a world where antisemitism is once more rearing its head.
Miriam Peleg-Mariańska (1913–1996), a Polish Jewess, collected evidence of the experiences of children under Nazi persecution and was a founding member of the Jewish Historical Commission. She worked for the underground Polish Socialist Party and for Żegota, the Council for Aid to the Jews of the underground Homeland army. After the war, Hochberg-Mariańska was the head of the Child Care Department at the Provincial Committee of Jews in Kraków until 1948. She settled in Israel in 1949 and worked at Yad Vashem for twenty years.
Mordecai Peleg died in 1986.
