An Episode in Dawid Wdowiński’s Biography
Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 9 (2013), Pages: 501-507
Submission Date: 2020-10-26Publication Date: 2013-12-01

Abstract
David Wdowinski (1895–1970) was the best-known survivor of the Zionist Revisionist Movement in the Warsaw Ghetto. A prominent psychiatrist in Poland, after the war, he settled in New York and joined the faculty of the New School for Social Research. Wdowinski’s memoir, And We Are Not Saved (published in 1963), was one of very few memoirs of life and death in the ghetto written from a Revisionist perspective. In that book, Wdowinski expressed his vehement objection to any reconciliation with Germans and, in fact, any normalization of relations between Germany and the State of Israel. In June 1964, at the request of the public prosecutor in Hamburg, Wdowinski received a form letter from the German consul in New York, Shacco von Estorff (1922–1980), summoning him to give testimony on the Dienststelle des SS- und Polizeiführer Lublin. Wdowinski’s long and impassioned reply constitutes a personal “J’Accuse” against German society’s half-hearted efforts at de-Nazification and its failure to confront its murderous history.
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David Wdowinski , German Federal Republic , post-war settlements
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