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Shmuel Krakowski

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that operated during the war in the Soviet Union. Krakowski initiated the connection with the Soviet archives and, when they became accessible, also initiated their photocopying and integration with Yad Vashem archives.
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After his retirement as director of the archives, Krakowski continued to be an adviser to the archives for about five years. Later, he was a researcher and an adviser at the
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Krakowski returned to Poland where he joined the structures of the new Polish communist government in 1945, taking the entry courses for the
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During Krakowski's tenure as the director of the Yad Vashem archives, the volume of them tripled and the relations with the
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In 1966 Krakowski requested and was given a leave of active service. Later he worked in the
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Chełmno : a small village in Europe : the first Nazi mass extermination camp
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Archives from 1968 until his retirement in 1993. He received a doctorate from the
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at Yad Vashem. He was also a member of The Commission for the Designation of the
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and a related antisemitic Polish government campaign, Krakowski moved to Israel.
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Chelmno, A Small Village in Europe: The First Nazi Mass Extermination Camp
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The war of the doomed : Jewish armed resistance in Poland, 1942-1944
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The War of the Doomed: Jewish Armed Resistance in Poland, 1942–1944
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office of investigations of Nazi crimes at Ludwigsburg, Germany
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II Office of the Headquarter Staff of the People's Polish Army
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for military research. Krakowski also taught courses at the
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Unequal victims : Poles and Jews during World War Two
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Museum of the History of the Polish Revolutionary Movement
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family to father Baruch and mother Miriam, but grew up in
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Second Department of Polish General Staff (1949-1951)
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Unequal Victims: Poles and Jews During World War Two
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Hebrew
the Holocaust in Poland
the Holocaust
People's Republic of Poland
Yad Vashem
Warsaw
Polish-Jewish
Łódź
Hashomer Hatzair
Łódź Ghetto
Auschwitz
Buchenwald
Theresienstadt
Polish Workers' Party
Ministry of Public Security
Ichud
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United Nations
Polish People's Army
Second Department of Polish General Staff (1949-1951)
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II Office of the Headquarter Staff of the People's Polish Army
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Polish Headquarter Staff Academy
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Polish People's Air Force
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Museum of the History of the Polish Revolutionary Movement
Jewish Historical Institute
1968 Polish political crisis

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