Bitter Legacy: Polish-American Relations in the Wake of World War IIThe first major analysis of Polish-American relations from the Potsdam Conference through the Polish elections of 1947, the critical period during which Poland became a satellite in the Russian sphere. |
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Jurek Kolarski | 97 |
Barbara Makuch | 110 |
Konstancja Marzec | 124 |
Adolph Pilch | 137 |
Maria Radecka | 142 |
Rurarz | 156 |
Zdzisfaw Szymczak | 166 |
Henryk Woliriski | 179 |
Bibliography | 192 |
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Page 9 - Millions of the Jews of Europe who did not or could not escape in time or go underground as many thousands did, could at least have marched as free men against the SS, rather than to first grovel, then wait to be rounded up for their own extermination, and finally walk themselves to the gas chambers.
Page 6 - Polish Jewry enjoyed an inner autonomy and freedom equalled by no other contemporary Jewry. Furthermore, it cannot be too often repeated that to Poland belongs the priority among European peoples in religious and cultural toleration."2 There is a beautiful story that goes along with this assessment: The place is specially intended for Jews.
Page 1 - all Poles will disappear from the world... It is essential that the great German people should consider it as a major task to destroy all Poles...
Page 59 - In recognition of his work, he was made a member of the Order of the British Empire in 1946.
Page 10 - Accounts of the martyrdom of Poland's Jews tend to emphasize their suffering at the hands of blackmailers and informers, the "blue" police and other scum. Less is written, on the other hand, about the thousands of Poles who risked their lives to save the Jews. The flotsam and jetsam on the surface of a turbulent river is more visible than the pure stream running deep underneath, but that stream...
Page 12 - Richard C. Lukas, The Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles Under German Occupation, 1939-1944 (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1986; New York: Hippocrene Books, 1990), pp.
Page 3 - In cases where in spite of all these measures the performance does not increase, or where the slightest act gives me occasion to step in, I would not even hesitate to take the most draconic action.
Page 126 - ... eunuchs and lackeys. Your slaves, both men and women, and the best of your cattle and your asses he will seize and put to his own use. He will take a tenth of your flocks and you and yourselves will become his slaves. When that day comes, you will cry out against the king whom you have chosen; but it will be too late, the Lord will not answer you.
Page 61 - We used to pull down our sweater sleeves over our hands, but this was hopeless. Eventually we made crude mittens out of rags to protect our already very sore hands.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Bitter Legacy: Polish-American Relations in the Wake of World War II |
| Author | Richard C. Lukas |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University Press of Kentucky, 1982 |
| ISBN | 0813114608, 9780813114606 |
| Length | 191 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / General Political Science / International Relations / General |
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