Neighborhood dilemmas. The Poles, the Germans and the Jews in Pomerania along the Vistula river in the 19th and 20th century. A

Studies published in this series are a pioneering attempt to present selected aspects of the ethnic and religious relationships in Pomerania in 19 and 20 century in relation to the events which were taking place in neighboring regions and countries based on wide research of archive materials. The studies summarize and conclude the first stage of research on the subject in question. They also point to the need for further studies into the field examining archive materials that so far have been inaccessible to researchers in Poland and documents kept in archives and libraries abroad, mainly in Germany.

Although Pomerania along the Vistula River varied with regard toethnicity, the Poles, the Germans and the Jews were most numerousthere. Apart from that, there lived also: the Russians, the Ukrainians,the Belorussians and the Gypsies. Numerous conflicts as well as periodsof cooperation and friendship were characteristic of theirrelationships. Nevertheless, Pomerania was homeland for all of themregardless nationality. A detailed picture of their neighborhood is thesubject of the present volume
Table of contents
Introduction - Jan Sziling, Mieczysław Wojciechowski
Kazimierz Wajda - The Poles and the Germans in West Prussia Province in the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century
Magdalena Niedzielska - The jews in West Prussia 1887-1920
Mieczysław Wojciechowski - German minority in Pomerania between the First and the Second World War (1920-1939) - Political life
Mariusz Wołos - The Jews in Pomerania between the First and the Second World War (1920-1939)
Zbigniew Karpus - The Russians and the Ukrainians in Pomerania in the 1920s and 1930s
Waldemar Rezmer - Ethnic issues in the army in the District Commander of Corps no. VIII Toruń (1920-1939)
Zofia Waszkiewicz - Religious relations in Chełmno Diocese between the First World War and the Second World War (1920-1939)
JanSziling - Policy of the German occupant towards the Poles, teh ethnicand the religious minorities in the Gdańsk-West Prussia Reich Districtfrom 1939 till 1945
Ryszard Sudziński - The Germans in Pomeraniaalong the Vistula River after the Second World War - their problems andfate from 1945 till 1950
Mirosław Golon - The Jews, the Ukrainians,the Russians, the Belorussians and - the Gypsies in Gdańsk Pomeraniaafter the Second World War
Elżbieta Alabrudzińska - Religious minorities in the Province of Pomerania and the Province of Gdańsk from 1945 to 1950

Mieczysław Wojciechowski

Jan Sziling