Holocaust Supremacism Slights Poles PROOF Wojciechowska

Waiting To Be Heard: The Polish Christian Experience Under Nazi And Stalinist Oppression 1939 1955, by Bogusia J. Wojciechowska. 2009

Ramifications of the Polokaust. It is Actively Marginalized by Holocaust Supremacism

This extensive collection of written testimonies demonstrates the scale of Polish suffering at the hands of the German and Soviet powers during WWII. Many of the testimonies include Poland’s experience during the 1939 German-Soviet invasion of Poland. A very large share of the testimonies focus on the deportation of Poles into the interior of the USSR, and the horrible slow-death conditions that prevailed there. The testimonies also call attention to the difficulties of postwar survivors, attempting to carve out a new life in the western nations that had betrayed Poland to Stalin.

THE 1939 ZYDOKOMUNA IN ACTION

Jewish-Soviet collaboration at Poland’s expense has long been an unhealed wound in Polish-Jewish relations. A number of eyewitnesses identify local Jews as active collaborators in the Soviet 1939-1941 arrests of Poles for deportation into Siberia. These eyewitnesses include Adam Szymel (p. 41), Emilia Kot Chojnacka (p. 133), and Stanislaw Milewski (pp. 164-165).

THE POLOKAUST

The Nazi genocide of Poles was not limited to direct mass murder of millions of gentile Poles, especially the intelligentsia. Passive genocide also came into play. Thus, for example, the deportation of millions of Poles into the interior of the Reich was not solely for forced labor. It removed a large fraction of Poles of prime childbearing age from the Polish population. The net deliberately-induced reduction of the Polish birth rate was then further accentuated: “Infants born to Polish women deported to Germany as farm and factory laborers were usually taken from their families and subjected to Germanization. If unions between forced laborers resulted in a pregnancy, and a ‘racially valuable’ child might not result, the mother was compelled to have an abortion.” (p. 93). Also, Danuta Banaszek Szlachetko, a POW following the Soviet-betrayed Warsaw Uprising, reports being forced by the German captives, along with other Polish women, to take drugs that prevented menstruation (in some cases, for a lifetime). (p. 109).

HOLOCAUST SUPREMACISM DRIVES THE POLOKAUST, AND OTHER NON-JEWISH GENOCIDES, TO THE MARGINS

Not surprisingly, the strongly Judeocentric definition of, and over-attention to, the Holocaust, has caused the genocides of Poles to be largely forgotten in the west. In fact, far too many westerners do not have a clue on this subject. Stanislaw Sagan comments: “My North American friends are constantly surprised when they learn that, not being a Jew, I was imprisoned in German Concentration Camps. One of my Canadian friends, heaving learned that I had been in a German Concentration Camp and knowing me as a Christian, thought that I must have been one of the guards there.” (p. 96).

The non-Jewish victims of the Nazis have not merely been ignored; they have been aggressively marginalized. In fact, Bozena Urbanowicz Gilbride, a Polish WWII victim of the Germans and prominent Holocaust educator, resigned in 2003 from NPAJAC (National Polish-American-Jewish-American Council), for the following reason: “I can no longer serve as a member of an organization that excludes five million people as victims of the Holocaust.” (p. 101). She adds: “Teaching the Holocaust is mandated in many schools, but it has become the teaching of the six million Jews and `others’, and only rarely do students learn about the five million `others’…Some public schools are not willing to speak about the five million `others’, as if it would be disloyal to the six million Jewish victims.” (p. 5).