March, 2020 - Justice For Polish Victims

Less Than 1 in 1,000 Ethnic Poles Were Ever Convicted of Collaborating With the Nazis!

PoloniaMarch 29, 2020January 13, 2024

by PoloniaMarch 29, 2020January 13, 202401313

Political and Transitional Justice in Germany, Poland, and the Soviet Union…by Magnus Brechtken et al. (eds.) 2019 Reviewed by Jan Peczkis No “Polish Complicity in...

Book Reviews Current Issues Polish/Jewish Relations

In the Krakow Area (at least), Jewish Denouncers Were More Common Than Polish Denouncers!

PoloniaMarch 27, 2020January 13, 2024

by PoloniaMarch 27, 2020January 13, 202401629

Zaglada Zydow W Krakowie, by Aleksander Bieberstein. 1959, 1985 Reviewed by Jan Peczkis Jan T. Gross Falsehoods Debunked THE DESTRUCTION OF THE JEWS OF KRAKOW....

Poles Under Communism Polish Experience

Early Postwar Poland: Soviet camps in “liberated” Poland

PoloniaMarch 21, 2020January 27, 2024

by PoloniaMarch 21, 2020January 27, 202401976

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, 202001607

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 Poles Under Communism Polish/Jewish Relations

“Poland’s Jews Didn’t Know Communism Was Violent and Totalitarian” Exculpation Debunked

PoloniaMarch 18, 2020January 27, 2024

by PoloniaMarch 18, 2020January 27, 202401149

Essential Papers on Jews and the Left, by Ezra Mendelsohn (Editor). 1997 Reviewed by Jan Peczkis This book centers on personages and political movements. It...

Polish/Jewish Relations Silent Heroes

On Poles Rescuing Jews. The Light in Hidden Places, by Sharon Cameron

PoloniaMarch 14, 2020January 27, 2024

by PoloniaMarch 14, 2020January 27, 202401138

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

Poles Under Communism Polish Experience

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

PoloniaMarch 1, 2020January 27, 2024

by PoloniaMarch 1, 2020January 27, 202403501

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....