March, 2020 - Justice For Polish Victims

Political and Transitional Justice in Germany, Poland and the Soviet Union from the 1930s to the 1950s, by Magnus Brechtken, Władysław Bułhak and Jürgen Zarusky (eds.) 2019

PoloniaMarch 29, 2020April 14, 2020

by PoloniaMarch 29, 2020April 14, 20200832

Reviewed by Jan Peczkis Polish Collaboration very rare: less than 0.1% of the ethnic Polish population. Jew killing WWII by Poles induced by German terror...

Book Reviews

Zaglada Zydow W Krakowie, by Aleksander Bieberstein. 1959, 1985

PoloniaMarch 27, 2020April 13, 2020

by PoloniaMarch 27, 2020April 13, 202001062

Reviewed by Jan Peczkis Holocaust Eyewitness: Polish Denouncers of Jews Were Uncommon. Jewish Denouncers Were More Common Than Polish Denouncers! Jan T. Gross Falsehoods Debunked...

Polish Experience

Soviet camps in “liberated” Poland

PoloniaMarch 21, 2020April 13, 2020

by PoloniaMarch 21, 2020April 13, 202001472

The first NKVD camps were established right after the Red Army entered the eastern territories of the Commonwealth. New ones were created in Lublin...

Polish/Jewish Relations

The story of Abram Tauber – a Jew saved by the Home Army, who, after the war, became the head of the Security Service in the village of Chodel.

PoloniaMarch 19, 2020April 14, 2020

by PoloniaMarch 19, 2020April 14, 202001272

This story shows that in the case of Polish-Jewish relations – especially in the post-war period – there can be no simple, zero-one narrative. Just...

Book Reviews

Essential Papers on Jews and the Left, by Ezra Mendelsohn (Editor). 1997

PoloniaMarch 18, 2020April 14, 2020

by PoloniaMarch 18, 2020April 14, 20200638

Reviewed by Jan Peczkis Zydokomuna “Poland’s Jews Didn’t Know Communism Was Violent and Totalitarian” Exculpation Debunked This book centers on personages and political movements. It...

Recommended Books

The Light in Hidden Places, by Sharon Cameron

PoloniaMarch 14, 2020April 14, 2020

by PoloniaMarch 14, 2020April 14, 20200715

The extraordinary story of Stefania Podgorska, a Polish teenager who chose bravery and humanity by hiding thirteen Jews in her attic during WWII — from...

Polish Experience

A Forgotten Odyssey – The Untold Story of 1,700,000 Poles Deported to Siberia in 1940 [five-part video]

PoloniaMarch 1, 2020

by PoloniaMarch 1, 202001857

In 1940, after Russia invaded Poland, Stalin deported 1.7 million Poles to slave labor camps in Siberia and Kazakhstan. Only one third of them survived....