Jew Killing WWII By Poles 200,000 Fake News Nixed Berendt

Zydowski Uciekinierzy i Tulacze w Okupowanej Polsce, by Grzegorz Berendt. 2017

Noted Historian Debunks the Media-Promoted Falsehood of 200,000 Fugitive Jews Killed By Poles in WWII

Accusations of Poles killing 200,000 Polish Jews were popularized by Jan Grabowski in his media-touted JUDENJAGD (Hunt for the Jews). They also have been repeated as fact by the likes of Jan T. Gross and Barbara Engelking.

The “200,000 Jews killed or denounced by Poles” is predicated on 40,000–60,000 fugitive Jews surviving the German occupation in Poland, out of a colossal assumed 250,000 fugitive Jews having fled the German-made ghettoes. It is a made-up figure.

THE FACTS

In this scholarly article published in the IPN BULLETIN [Nr. 6 (139), June 2017], noted historian Grzegorz Berendt has examined the documented literature. He shows that there are records of no more than 28,620 Jews having fled the ghettoes. (p. 55). Even though this figure is, of course, conservative, it is a long, long way from the mythologized tenfold-larger Grabowski figure of 250,000 fugitive Jews.

It is high time that the media gets its act together, and stops promoting the “200,000 Jews killed Poles” propaganda as fact. Fat chance.