Polish/Jewish Relations - Justice For Polish Victims

The Jedwabne Coverup: An Obstruction of Justice. Rebuking the Polish Government for Its Timidity (Corruption?) in Refusing a Long-Overdue Proper Forensic Exhumation at Jedwabne

PoloniaDecember 29, 2018September 27, 2024

by PoloniaDecember 29, 2018September 27, 202401785

A book review by Jan Peczkis (in English) THE ANATOMY OF THE LIE SURROUNDING JEDWABNE: A WHITE BOOK OF CENSORSHIP AND LAWLESSNESS OF THE POLISH...

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Five Million Forgotten – Non Jewish Victims of the Shoah

PoloniaDecember 6, 2018April 15, 2020

by PoloniaDecember 6, 2018April 15, 202002233

Growing up in a Polish community, and raised by Polish-speaking parents, I heard many stories about the atrocities of the Holocaust. I learned very early...

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Holocaust Forgotten – Terese Pencak Schwartz

PoloniaDecember 6, 2018January 27, 2024

by PoloniaDecember 6, 2018January 27, 202402175

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...

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Polish Suffering and Jewish Suffering Juxtaposed Without Much Jewish Objection (For Once)

PoloniaOctober 15, 2018September 27, 2024

by PoloniaOctober 15, 2018September 27, 202402256

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...

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Whoever Saves One Life ……

PoloniaAugust 4, 2018August 6, 2018

by PoloniaAugust 4, 2018August 6, 201801686

A documentary by Dr Ewa Kurek about nuns in Polish female convents saving Jewish children during the German occupation of Poland. [Youtube link]...

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Two “Anti” Ideologies: Anti-Polonism and Anti-Semitism

PoloniaAugust 4, 2018August 4, 2018

by PoloniaAugust 4, 2018August 4, 201802285

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...

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Poland And The Jews: A Few Facts About Poland’s WWII History – by W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz

PoloniaJuly 17, 2018July 17, 2018

by PoloniaJuly 17, 2018July 17, 201802450

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...

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Wartime Rescue of Jews by the Polish Catholic Clergy: The Testimony of Survivors – edited and compiled by Mark Paul

PoloniaJune 29, 2018June 30, 2018

by PoloniaJune 29, 2018June 30, 201812809

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...

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What it meant to be righteous in German-occupied Poland – by G. Gorny

PoloniaJune 27, 2018

by PoloniaJune 27, 201802314

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...

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Szmul Zygielbojm – a Jewish-Polish politician who committed suicide to protest the indifference of the Allied governments in the face of the Holocaust

PoloniaMay 11, 2018May 11, 2018

by PoloniaMay 11, 2018May 11, 201802101

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...