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...
Category : Polish/Jewish Relations
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...
An American speaks out on the current Polish Jewish debate
We are in a time when an agenda is being pushed and it is being pushed in full-force and those that speak up are usually...