Person, Katarzyna. Rehabilitation of individuals suspected of collaboration.

Study of cases of Jewish ‘collaboration’ investigated by the Jewish Social Court 1946-1950. It investigated cases of ‘collaboration’ including holding positions of authority in camps and ghettos; assisting deportation; looting; and working as informers. Punishment included rebukes, ostracism, and suspension/exclusion from the Jewish community. The study is based on a close reading of the extant record of postwar Polish Jewish honor courts held at the archive of the Jewish Historical Institute Warsaw. The contribution extends the themes explored in in the essays edited by Laura Jockusch and Gabriel Finder (2015), Gabriel Finder (2005, 2006), Gabriel Finder and Alexander Prusin (2008), and David Engel (1999).

This chapter forms part of the following edited volume: Eric Le Bourhis, Irina Tcherneva, and Vanessa Voisin (eds.), Seeking Accountability for Nazi and War Crimes in East Europe: A People’s Justice? (Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press, 2022).

Katarzyna Person, “Rehabilitation of individuals suspected of collaboration: The Jewish Civic Court by the Central Committee of Jews in Poland, 1946-1950,” in Eric Le Bourhis, Irina Tcherneva, and Vanessa Voisin (eds.), Seeking Accountability for Nazi and War Crimes in East Europe: A People’s Justice? (Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press, 2022), 261-282.