Two “Anti” Ideologies: Anti-Polonism and Anti-Semitism
PART I: ANTI-SEMITISM This article, which is divided into four parts, compares and contrasts two “anti” ideologies: anti-Polonism and anti-Semitism. Accusations of anti-Polonism do not...
Category : Polish/Jewish Relations
Poland And The Jews: A Few Facts About Poland’s WWII History – by W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz
Poland was the first country to oppose the Nazi Germany in WWII. She was attacked by the Germans on 1st September 1939 and her forces defended themselves...
Wartime Rescue of Jews by the Polish Catholic Clergy: The Testimony of Survivors – edited and compiled by Mark Paul
Rescue activities on behalf of Jews were carried out by priests, nuns and monks in more than one thousand Roman Catholic Church institutions throughout Poland...
What it meant to be righteous in German-occupied Poland – by G. Gorny
In response to anti-Polish bias in Holocaust scholarship, education, and popular culture, a Polish journalist Grzegorz Gorny published a book “Righteous,” in which he explained...
Szmul Zygielbojm – a Jewish-Polish politician who committed suicide to protest the indifference of the Allied governments in the face of the Holocaust
Szmul Zygielbojm was born on February 21, 1895 in the village of Borowica, Poland (then under control of the Russian Empire). Zygielbojm left home for...
Patterns of Cooperation, Collaboration and Betrayal: Jews, Germans and Poles in Occupied Poland during World War II
Jakub Lejkin, second in command of Jewish Order Service in front of his unit. Collaboration with the Germans in occupied Poland is a topic that...
Poles Rescue Jews. Your Life Is Worth Mine
For the first two years of the German occupation of Poland in World War II, Hitler’s policy was to suppress all potential Polish resistance by...
Traditional Jewish Attitudes Toward Poles by Mark Paul
Unlike Polish attitudes toward Jews, about which there is an extensive and growing literature, the issue of Jewish attitudes toward Poles is a much neglected...
Jedwabne and the Will to remain ignorant, George!
History has never been George Will’s forte – baseball – maybe? He had to cheat when coaching a presidential candidate, Ronald Reagan, by resorting to...