Holocaust Forgotten – Terese Pencak Schwartz
Eleven million people were killed in the Holocaust. Almost six million of these were Jewish – Hitler’s most recognized victims. But, five million were not...
Category : Polish/Jewish Relations
Polish Suffering and Jewish Suffering Juxtaposed Without Much Jewish Objection (For Once)
Children of Terror, by Inge Auerbacher and Bozenna Urbanowicz Gilbride. 2009 Book reviewed by Jan Peczkis This book is unusual in that it juxtaposes the Nazi-related...
Whoever Saves One Life ……
A documentary by Dr Ewa Kurek about nuns in Polish female convents saving Jewish children during the German occupation of Poland. [Youtube link]...
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...
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...