Adam Rutkowski
Adam Rutkowski (* 1912 in Radom ; † 1987 in Paris ) was a Polish scientist of Jewish descent and Holocaust researcher.
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)
Web links
- Literature by and about Adam Rutkowski in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Article about the discovery of a Holocaust collection by Adam Rutkowski (Polish)
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SURNAME | Rutkowski, Adam |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rosenberg, Abram |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish scientist of Jewish descent and Holocaust researcher |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1912 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Radome |
DATE OF DEATH | 1987 |
Place of death | Paris |