Barbara Bossak-Herbst
Studia Migracyjne – Przegląd Polonijny, Nr 1 (191), 2024 (L), s. 145 - 165
https://doi.org/10.4467/25444972SMPP.24.008.19678Barbara Bossak-Herbst
Zeszyty Prasoznawcze, Tom 60, Numer 4 (232), 2017, s. 922 - 946
https://doi.org/10.4467/22996362PZ.17.052.8194Press as an intervention instrument in the PPR. Case study of state horse racing tracks enterprise in the 1970’s and 1980’s
Barbara Bossak-Herbst
Prace Historyczne, Numer 146 (1), 2019, s. 219 - 241
https://doi.org/10.4467/20844069PH.19.012.9576Służewiec Racetrack in Warsaw during World War II: History of the institution and the facility
The aim of the article is to reconstruct the social and institutional organization and the course of events during World War II at the Służewiec Racetrack: a gated urban estate of about one hundred and fifty hectares in Mokotów (now Ursynów) in Warsaw. The history of this institution was far from typical, due to its functions, the unique organization of space and high social position of its owners. The Służewiec Racetrack was paid for by renting lots to various forms of occupation troops, civil services and nearby farmers. The horse races were organized in Lublin. The company employed workers, including those who hid in Służewiec because of their Jewish origins. In 1944 the Służewiec Racetrack was an arena of dramatic insurgent fighting, a place of execution and the site of a transitional camp for the Mokotów population. The empirical basis of the article consists of the war protocols of the Society for the Encouragement of Horse Breeding (Towarzystwo Zachęty do Hodowli Koni), data collected in ethnographic own research and scattered publications, among others of insurgents’ memoirs and interviews gathered in the Oral History Archive of the Warsaw Uprising Museum.