When Light Pierced the Darkness, by Nechama Tec. 1986. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford
In recent years, there has been a flurry of propaganda, put out by the Holocaust establishment, asserting that there were 250,000 fugitive Jews in German-occupied Poland, and that the vast majority of them were betrayed or killed by Poles. All this is horror propaganda.
Any total of fugitive Jews is conjectural, and there are much smaller estimates than 250,000. With reference to a personal communication from historian Szymon Datner (p. 213), scholar Nechama Tec writes, “On the other hand, one prominent historian is of the opinion that of the 100,000 Jews who tried to live on the Polish side, 20,000 perished, an estimate that would leave 80,000 who survived by passing. Most experts find this estimate too optimistic, putting the figure more realistically at 40,000 to 60,000.” (p. 31). This means that roughly half of all fugitive Jews survived the Nazi German occupation! Moreover, the vast majority of fugitive Jews were found and killed by Germans, and most Jews killed by Poles were killed for justifiable reasons.
German historian Peter Longerich also endorses a figure of 100,000 fugitive Jews or less in German-occupied Poland. See:
https://www.jewsandpolesdatabase.org/2019/11/04/jedwabne-a-german-crime-definitive-work-longerich/
SELECTIVE AND HYPOCRITICAL YAD VASHEM POLICIES
Tec comments, “In part ambiguous, these criteria leave no doubt that those who saved Jews because of payment do not fit the definition of righteous Christians. In fact, the Yad Vashem committee ignores all who gained materially by protecting Jews.” (p. 4). However, not mentioned is the fact that Yad Vashem honored the Danes, and Oscar Schindler, despite the fact that both were paid.
The Danish Jews, at 8,000, were “…a mere 0.2% of Denmark’s population.” (p. 7). This contrasts with Poland, where the Jews were about 12% of the population. No wonder that there was much less antisemitism in Denmark than in Poland. It was not because the Danes were a better people than Poles. It is easy to be favorable to Jews when you are not affected by them.
NO “NARROW FOOTBRIDGE” BETWEEN ENDEKS AND NAZI GERMANS
Endek (“far-right nationalist”) Leon Nowodworski supported the exclusion of Jews from the legal profession, yet, during the German occupation, he turned down a Nazi order, refusing to dismiss Jews from the bar. For this, the Germans sent him to prison. (p. 100). For further details, see:
https://www.jewsandpolesdatabase.org/2019/11/04/onr-rejects-nazi-policies-on-jews-hartglas/
