Tributes to Professor Feliks Tych (1929- 2015)

Professor Feliks Tych, who died on 16 February  2015 after a long and illustrious career, was one of the most important scholars on Rosa Luxemburg. He was the editor of three volumes of Luxemburg’s letters to Leo Jogiches (published in Warsaw between 1968 and 1971), a longstanding member and contributor of the International Rosa Luxemburg Society and the author of a vast number of articles, papers and studies on Luxemburg.

Professor Tych headed the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw from 1995 to 2006 and wrote on a range of other subjects, including the history of the labour movement in Poland and the Holocaust.

A selection of obituaries and tributes to Professor Tych in English:

‘Saying Goodbye to Prof. Feliks Tych’ (Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw): http://www.jhi.pl/en/blog/2015-02-17-saying-goodbye-to-prof-feliks-tych

‘Professor Feliks Tych, Historian, Dies at 85’ (POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews): http://www.sprawiedliwi.org.pl/en/cms/news-archive/1126,professor-feliks-tych-historian-dies-at-85/

‘Feliks Tych (1929- 2015)’ (YIVO Institute, New York): http://www.yivo.org/blog/index.php/2015/02/20/feliks-tych-1929-2015/#more-3305

‘IHRA Regrets the Passing of Professor Feliks Tych’ (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance): https://www.holocaustremembrance.com/media-room/news-archive/ihra-regrets-announce-passing-professor-feliks-tych

In German:

‘Chronist des Grauens. Zum Tod des polnisch-juedischen Historikers Feliks Tych’ (Juedische Allgemeine): http://www.juedische-allgemeine.de/article/view/id/21553

‘Feliks Tych’ (by Annelies Laschitza) (Neues Deutschland): https://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/962503.feliks-tych.html

‘Feliks Tych als Historiker der polnischen Arbeiterbewegung
und als bedeutender Rosa-Luxemburg-Forscher. Eine kurze Würdigung’ (by Holger Politt): http://www.internationale-rosa-luxemburg-gesellschaft.de/html/geschichte.html

‘Feliks Tych (1929-2015)’ (by Winfried R. Garscha, Vienna): http://www.ith.or.at/mix/tych.htm

At an International Workshop on Rosa Luxemburg in Berlin (6-7 March 2015), Professor Tych’s longstanding collaborator Dr. Juergen Hensel, spoke movingly about his life, work and legacy.

In Russian:

‘Профессор Феликс Тых (1929–2015)’ (by Winfried R. Garscha, Vienna): http://www.praxiscenter.ru/issledovaniya/istoriya/