Posted on 04/12/2010 10:52:43 AM PDT by Nachum
A new study by Dr. Chavi Dreyfuss Ben-Sasson analyzes the experiences of Polish Jewry as they dealt, or didn’t deal, with their neighbors and friends who suddenly became enemies and Nazi collaborators.
The study appeared several months ago in a book entitled, “We are Polish Jewry?” The book researches the relations between Jews and Poles during the Holocaust – relations that have been termed the “most complex and charged” of the entire Holocaust period.
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From the last 60 years of my life that I have witnessed American Jews supporting and voting for Democrats, I don’t find this odd.
Jews lost a good friend when President Kaczynski’s plane went down.
As Mark Twain once said, “History may not repeat itself, but it surely does rhyme.”
There will always be those who will sell out their neighbor for a perceived advantage.
War is coming. Here. Soon.
You know, I was thinking it was the murder of Archbishop Ferdinand of Austria that kicked off WWI. Will the ‘death’ of President Kaczynski be what starts WWIII?
* Archduke, not Archbishop.
I don’t see it. Russia has been at least outwardly doing all the right things. In fact, it may ultimately bring better relations between Poland and Russia. Especially as Poles realize with this administration we don’t have their backs.
"I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half." ~ Jay Gould
Any studies on the Polish Christians killed?
I imagine the Church has plenty of documentation of the Nazi murders of Catholics.
For example:
"The Catholic Church in Poland was especially hard hit by the Nazis. ...The Germans treated the Church most harshly in the annexed regions, as they systematically closed churches there; most priests were either killed, imprisoned, or deported to the General Government. Between 1939 and 1945 an estimated 3,000 members of the Catholic clergy in Poland were killed; of these, 1,992 died in concentration camps, 787 of them at Dachau, including bishop Michał Kozal.
"No exception was made for Poland's higher clergy. Bishop Michael Kozal of Wladislava died in Dachau; Bishop Nowowiejski of Płock and his suffragan Bishop Wetmanski both died in prison in Poland; Bishop Fulman of Lublin and his suffragan Bishop Goral were sent to a concentration camp in Germany.
"In 1939, 80 percent of the Catholic clergy and five of the bishops of the Warthegau region had been deported to concentration camps. In Wrocław, 49.2 percent of the clergy were dead; in Chelmno, 47.8 percent; in Łódź, 36.8 percent; in Poznań, 31.1 percent. In the Warsaw diocese, 212 priests were killed; 92 were murdered in Wilno, 81 in Lwów, 30 in Kraków, 13 in Kielce. Seminarians who were not killed were shipped off to Germany as forced labor.
"Of 690 priests in the Polish province of West Prussia, at least 460 were arrested. The remaining priests of the region fled their parishes. Of the arrested priests, 214 were executed, including the entire cathedral chapter of Pelplin. The rest were deported to the newly created General Government district in Central Poland. By 1940, only 20 priests were still serving their parishes in West Prussia."
Poland had a population of 35 million in 1939. Its population was 24 million in 1946.
About 3 million Polish Jews and 2 million Polish non-Jews were murdered outright by the Nazis.
The other 6 million missing Poles were those who were fighting in foreign armies like those of the British or the Soviets or were deported to work camps and such.
Now, those missing 8 million non-Jew Poles -- about a quarter of the population were the most patriotic, devout and moral members of the nation.
Imagine what the plight of Jews in this country would be if a quarter of the most patriotic, devout and moral members -- basically the issue conservatives -- were to disappear.
The movie, “Schindler List” has been put out as the most accurate movie made on the history of jews under the nazi’s.
I irony of the movie is that no Jew helped their fellow jews anywhere or helped themselves. I have friends in Israel and during the rash of bombings some years back I asked why don’t they stop it and was told that “we suffered under the Pharaohs and will get through this as well.”
They never seem to do anything.
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