The Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles Under German Occupation, 1939-1944Emphasizes that the Polish people, like the Jews, were victims of a German war of annihilation which nearly succeeded. While some Poles helped Jews, others helped the Germans to hunt them down. However, these were condemned by the Polish underground. Ch. 5 (pp. 121-151) argues that Polish failure to save the Jews was due not to antisemitism but rather to preoccupation with their own survival and lack of mutual social contacts. Contends that Polish antisemitism was mainly an expression of resentment against Jewish economic domination, matched by Jewish discrimination against Poles. Poles resented the Jewish welcome of the Soviets in 1939. Up to 1942, they believed that the Jews were relatively safe in the ghettos. also denies "exaggerated" accusations of antisemitism in the Anders Army. Ch. 6 (pp. 152-181) describes actions of the government-in-exile on behalf of the Jews; denies that the Home Army failed to help the Warsaw ghetto fighters. |
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... large number were transferred from there to Germany for forced labor.49 What happened to the congregation of the Sisters of the Resurrection of Our Lord was rather typical of what befell other religious orders . The Germans closed seven ...
... large number were transferred from there to Germany for forced labor.49 What happened to the congregation of the Sisters of the Resurrection of Our Lord was rather typical of what befell other religious orders . The Germans closed seven ...
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... and civilians , including a large number of Jews who had fled from ghettos to the countryside . As early as fall of 1941 , Soviet paratroops with large amounts of money landed at various points in Poland 76 THE FORGOTTEN HOLOCAUST.
... and civilians , including a large number of Jews who had fled from ghettos to the countryside . As early as fall of 1941 , Soviet paratroops with large amounts of money landed at various points in Poland 76 THE FORGOTTEN HOLOCAUST.
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... large number of Jewish orphans who had been housed in Jewish and Polish orphanages in the Soviet Union , and a number of people , among them several rabbis , who had no connection with the Polish army . The British concluded that Polish ...
... large number of Jewish orphans who had been housed in Jewish and Polish orphanages in the Soviet Union , and a number of people , among them several rabbis , who had no connection with the Polish army . The British concluded that Polish ...
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