Gwardia Ludowa

Polish Peoples Army
Polska Armia Ludowa

Identifier: 314
Type of Entity: Corporate Body

Dates of Existence

Founded in 1943-04

History

The Gwardia Ludowa is a Polish communist underground organization, established in 1943-04 under Soviet sponsorship. This group, also known as the Polish Peoples Army, welcomed Jews into their ranks. An estimated 1,700 Jews were killed fighting for the Gwardia Ludowa. This army supplied small arms to the Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa (Jewish Fighting Organization), during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The GL never integrated with the Armia Krajowa.

Places

Founded and active in Poland.

Sources

Dictionary of the Holocaust : Biography, geography, and terminology / E.J. Epstein and P. Rosen. – Westport, 1997. – p. 116 The Civilian Population and the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 / J.K.M. Hanson. - Cambridge, 1982. - p. 70

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Jan Szelubski papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn515100
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
The papers consist of pre-war, wartime, and post war photographs, documents, and identity cards illustrating the life of Jan Szelubski before the Holocaust in Lida, Lithuania, (now Belarus). During World War II, Szelubski was a company commander of the Armia Ludowa during the Warsaw uprising and received the "Virtuti Militari" medal for his bravery. After the war, he joined the diplomatic service.
Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD im Distrikt Radom, Aussenstelle Kielce records (Sygn.170)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn504388
- English
- 1940-1944
- 1 microfilm reel, 35 mm
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains reports, memoranda, instructions, circular letters, and various other documents relating to the activities of the Kielce branch of the Sicherheitspolizei and Sicherheitsdienst in Radom, Poland. Also includes information on sabotage in the Kielce area; acts of arson; German counter espionage activities; activities of resistance fighters ("bandits"); combatting the activities of communists in the area; and several episodes of persons denouncing others as members of the resistance, Also contains detailed information concerning the arrest, trial, and sentencing of Jósef Sitek for his ...
Oral history interview with Aharon Carmi
1. Oral history interviews of the Israel Documentation Project
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn502651
- English
- 26 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
- Updated 1 year ago
Oral history interview with Anna Lanota
1. Oral history interviews of the Poland Documentation Project
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn507767
- English
- 5 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
- Updated 1 year ago
Oral history interview with Benjamin Maierchik
1. Oral history interviews of the Israel Documentation Project
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn502779
- English
- 8 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
- Updated 1 year ago
Oral history interview with Helena Balicka Kozlowska
1. Oral history interviews of the Poland Documentation Project
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn507653
- English
- 2 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
- Updated 1 year ago
Oral history interview with Jadwiga Gawronska
1. Oral history interviews of the Poland Documentation Project
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn507765
- English
- 11 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
- Updated 1 year ago
Oral history interview with Paul Monka
1. Oral history interviews of the Holocaust Resource Center at Kean University collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn505554
- English
- 4 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
- Updated 1 year ago
Oral history interview with Samuel Willenberg
1. Oral history interviews of the Israel Documentation Project
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn502969
- English
- 8 digital files, MPEG-4
- Updated 1 year ago
Oral history interview with Stanisław Mrezek
1. Oral history interviews of the Polish Witnesses to the Holocaust Project
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn510416
- English
- 2 videocasettes (Betacam SP), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
- Updated 1 year ago
Oral history interview with Tadeusz Hajnrych
1. Oral history interviews of the Polish Witnesses to the Holocaust Project
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn510394
- English
- 1 videocasette (Betacam SP),
- Updated 1 year ago
Polska Partia Robotnicza
- Polish Workers’ Party
- PPR
- EHRI Corporate Bodies
- Corporate Body
- Updated 1 decade ago
1942-01-05/1948

Polish communists were transferred from USSR to Poland to connect polish communistics parties. The Polska Partia Robotnicza was subordinated to soviet communist party and controlled by the Narodnyj Komissariat Wnutriennich Dieł (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs). The leaders were: W. Gomulka, B. Bierut. It headed Gwardia Ludowa (Polish People’s Army), Armia Ludowa (People’s Army). When Red Army came to Poland, PPR let Sovietization of the country through terror. It merged with the Polska Partia Socjalistyczna (Polish Socialist Party) into Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza (Poli...
Underground press Zespół podziemie-prasa konspiracyjna (Sygn. 230)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn507357
- English
- 1940-1945
- 7 microfilm reels, 35 mm
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains newspapers, bulletins, periodicals, reports, leaflets, radio announcements, essays, clandestine underground publications, and various other documents relating to the activities of the anti-Nazi underground movement in Poland during the German occupation from 1939 to 1945. The materials relate to underground and partisan group activities, persecution and extermination of Polish Jews, activities of communists, situations on the war front, and situations in the Jewish ghettos and concentration camps throughout Poland. A significant portion of the collection is made up of photocopies o...
Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa
- Jewish Fighting Organization
- JFO
- EHRI Corporate Bodies
- Corporate Body
- Updated 7 years ago
Founded in 1942-07-28

Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa was set up in 1942. A more broad-based Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa was set up on 1942-10-15. The political leadership of ŻOB was the Żydowski Komitet Narodowy (Jewish National Committee), and the organization had about 500 members. Its units fought in the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto under the command of Mordechaj Anielewicz.