Michal Borwicz

  • Maksymilian Boruchowicz
Identifier
000450
Dates
1911-1987
Type of Entity
Person

History

Michal Borwicz (Maksymilian Boruchowicz) was born in Krakow in 1911, and died in Paris in 1987. A graduate of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, he was a Jewish Polish author and historian, who studied the history of Polish Jewry during the Holocaust. Borwicz was an inmate in the Janowska camp in Lwow from 1942-1943. He was sentenced to death by hanging, however when the sentence was being carried out, the rope broke. He escaped from the camp and joined the partisans and commanded an Armia Krajowa (AK) unit in the Krakow area. After the war, he headed the Jewish Historical Commission in Krakow from 1945 to 1947. After emigrating to France in 1947, he directed the Centre d'etude de l`histoire des Juifs (Polonais) (Center for Research of the History of the Jews of Poland) in Paris until his death.

Places

  • Poland, Paris

Legal Status

  • Head of the Jewish Historical Commission in Krakow from 1945 to 1947

General Context

The Activity of the Jewish Historical Commissions in poland after WWII

Dates of Creation and Deletion

2014-05-29

Sources

  • YV Archives selected by JL