Steiger Affair, reflected in Jewish, Polish and Ukrainian periodicals, 1924, 1925, 1924-1928
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Brief Description:

The process or the Steiger Trial unfolds via reportages and reports continuously published in Jewish, Polish and Ukrainian periodicals. The court of Juries is presented by an array of conspiracy versions, from a Communist to Zionist to Ukrainian nationalists, not excluding just an anti-Polish plot, perhaps not related to a given ethnonational group. Often it seems that investigation is lost in supporting controversial version, only based on dubious testimonies of a few unreliable witnesses. The criminal police in Lviv (Lwow) often demonstrates inability to filter improbable evidences and to concentrate on conceivable evidence-supported discourse related to the conspiracy masterminded by the Ukrainian Military Organization. It took intervention of the Warsaw political police and its Lviv counterpart to adhere to the Ukrainian-related course of investigation. With a publication in Ukrainian press together with actual confession of Teofil Olshanskii, a militant from the UVO, who escaped to Germany, the court reluctantly accepted a Ukrainian, not Jewish and not a Communist trace in this case. Even with obvious evidences presented by the Ukrainian members of the UVO and confession of the actual culprit, the Steiger defense is of utmost significance. It takes a Jewish lawyer, Natan Lowenstein whose reputation of Polish patriot and unbiased jurist is of no doubts to persuade the Jury (not all members) of Steiger's innocence.

From a broader perspective it was not only a Steiger trial, it was a trial of Polish - Jewish and Ukrainian - Jewish mutual perception presented as ethno-political narrative and standing as a common national minorities discourse of interwar Eastern Galicia.

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Record Series Number: RG-105/RG-105
Created by: Natan Loewenstein, Jewish jurist, lawyer, deputy to the Constituent Sejm in 1919 -1921 (1859 -- 1929), Chwila (the Moment), editorial board and contributors (1919 -- 1939), Dilo, editorial board and contributors (1914 -- 1918), Nasz Przeglad (Our Review), editorial board and contributors (1923 -- 1939), Novyi Chas (The New Time), Ukrainian National Democratic Alliance (1925 -- 1939), Nowy Dziennik, Jewish daily in Polish language, editorial board and contributors (1918 --1939), Pawel Korzec, Polish historian (1919 -- 2012)
Volume: 1.0 Boxes
Biographical Note for Natan Loewenstein, Jewish jurist, lawyer, deputy to the Constituent Sejm in 1919 -1921 (1859 -- 1929) :

<b style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">Natan Loewenstein, Jewish public and political figure, supporter of acculturation and emancipation of Jews with Polish culture and Polish statehood. </b>

<b style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">He played a prominent role in the defense of falsely accused Stanislaw Steiger. In 1926, he published a monograph About the Steiger Case, a reflection on his defense discourse and the win of the case in October -December 1925. </b>

Subject Index
Assassination attempt on the life of Stanislaw Wojcechowski, President of Poland, September 1924
Benzion Lichtenstein, witness in the Steiger Trial, court session October - December 1925, Chwila
Cafe de la Paix, Lwow (Lviv) in regard to observation point, testimonies of witnesses, 1924m 1925
Criminal investigation is based on two principal witnesses, Maria Paternal and Wiktoria Loedl, 1924
Cross-examination of witnesses, prosecution and defense, the Steiger Trial, court in session
Dr. Grek, attorney at law, defense lawyer in Steiger Trial, 1924, 1925
Dr. Landau, attorney at law, defense lawyer in Steiger trial, 1924, 1925
Dr. Ringel, attorney at law, defense lawyer in Steiger Trial, 1924, 1925, Chwila, 1924, 1925
Failed assassination attempt on President of Poland, Wojcechowski in Lwow (Lviv), 5 September 1924
Formal legal premises for summary tribunal in Eastern Galicia, 1920s
Interpellation in Prussian Parliament (Germany) in regard to the Steiger Affair, Chwila October 1925
Investigation in the Steiger case is renewed, September 1924 -- October 1925
Janina Onyszkiewicz, witness in the Steiger Trial, court in session, October - December 1925
Jewish political and public figures intervention on behalf of Stanislaw Steiger, 1924 -- 1925
Jewish political spectrum in interwar Eastern Galicia
Only one judge of the Steiger trial summary tribunal voted against his guilt, September 1924
Polish political spectrum, 1918 --1939
Pre-trial police investigation on Stanislaw Steiger, Lwow (Lviv) criminal police, September 1924
Reflections and discourse of Steiger Trial, Lwow (Lviv), 1924 -- 1925, by Dilo
Reflections and discourse of Steiger Trial by Chwila, 1924 -- 1925
Reflections and discourse of Steiger Trial by Ilustrowany Kuryer Condzienny, Cracow, 1924 - 1925
Reflections and discourse of Steiger Trial by Nasz Przeglad, 1924 -- 1925, Warsaw
Reflections and discourse of Steiger Trial by Novyi Chas, 1924 -- 1925, Lviv (Lwow)
Reflections and discourse of the Steiger Trial, 1924 -- 1925 by Slowo Polskie, Lwow (Lviv)
Reflections and discourse of the Steiger Trial in Nowy Dziennik, Cracow, 1924 -- 1925
Stanislaw (Szlomo) Steiger, biography
Stanislaw Wojcechowski, Polish politician, Minister of Interior, 1919-1920, President, 1922 --1926
Stanislaw Wojcechowski, President of Poland, 1922 -- 1926
Stanislaw Wojcechowski, President of Poland, visit to Lwow (Lviv), beginning of September 1924
Statement of the Ukrainian Military Organization (UVO) sent to Jewish daily Chwila, September 8 1924
Statements and narratives of Ukrainian Military Organization (UVO) in regard to Steiger Trial, 1924
Steiger Affair, Lviv, 1924 -- 1925
Steiger Affair and Trial, 1924 -- 1925
Steiger is regarded a warranted suspect in a failed assassination of President Wojcechowski, 1924
Steiger trial, court in session, October -- December 1925, testimonies of witnesses, Chwila, 1925
Steiger Trial, examination of witnesses, prosecution, court in session, 1924, 1925
Steiger Trial, examination of witnesses by defense, court in session, 1924, 1925
Steiger Trial, Police examination with excessive force, Lwow (Lviv) criminal police, 1924
Steiger Trial, police investigation, Commissar Kajdan exercising of excessive force, 1924
Steiger Trial, police investigation, Inspector Lukomski, exercising of excessive force, 1924
Steiger Trial, Summary Tribunal refers the case to the court of jury, September 15 -17, 1924
Summary tribunal in the Steiger case consisted of counselor (judges) Dukiet, Huth, Mayer and Socha
Summary Tribunal in the Steiger Trial, Lwow (Lviv), September 15, 1924
Teofil Olshanskii, Ukrainian militant, implementer of the failed attemptĀ onĀ President Wojcechowski
Teofil Olshanskij, member of the Ukrainian Military Organization, a militant
The course of assassination attempt on President Stanislaw Wojcochowski, September 5, 1924, Lwow
Ukrainian political spectrum in Eastern Galicia, 1918 -- 1939
Verdicts of summary tribunal are to be passed unanimously, otherwise case goes to regular proceeding
Witnesses in the Steiger Trial, Lwow (Lviv), 1924 -- 1925
Witnesses in the Steiger trial, Z. Ecktein, bystander, sessions on 1925
Wojcech Bill, policeman, witness in the Steiger Trial, court in sesssion October - December 1925
Languages of Materials
Polish [pol]
Ukrainian [ukr]
German [ger]