Adam Rutkowski

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Adam Rutkowski (* 1912 in Radom ; † 1987 in Paris ) was a Polish scientist of Jewish descent and Holocaust researcher.

Grave of Regina Rutkowska and memory of Adam Rutkowski in the Jewish cemetery on Okopowa Street in Warsaw

Life

Rutkowski was born into a Jewish family as Abram Rosenberg . He studied history at the Sorbonne University in Paris. During the Second World War Rutkowski lived in the Soviet Union , the whole family died around 1941–1942 in the Treblinka extermination camp . After the World War he worked at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw , among other things he was deputy director there. In 1968 he was expelled from Poland as a Jew. After that he was archivist at the Mémorial de la Shoah in Paris from 1969 . He is the author of several books and articles. He was also the editor of the Polish edition of Dawid Rubinowicz's diary.

Fonts (in German translation)

  • with Tatiana Berenstein: Aid for Jews in Poland 1939–1945 . Translation from Polish: Katja Weintraub . Warsaw 1963
  • Letters from Litzmannstadt . Edited by Janusz Gumbowski, Adam Rutkowski and Arnfrid Astel. Deciphered from Hebrew and Yiddish by Liber Brener and Adam Wein: trans. into Polish by Szymon Datner. German by Peter Lachmann and Arnfrid Astel. Cologne Middelhauve 1967

literature

  • Abram Rozenberg (Adam Rutkowski) . Nekrolog in: "Voice of Radom", December 1987, p. 15 (English)
  • Robert Zawisza: Adam Rutkowski. Szkic biograficzny . Warszawa 2006, Studenckie Koło Naukowe, 28 p. (Polish)

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