Jew Killing WWII By Poles Not By Underground Glazar

Trap with a Green Fence: Survival in Treblinka, by Richard Glazar, Roslyn Theobald (Translator), Wolfgang Benz (Foreword). 1995

Jew-Killing Done By Bandits, Not the Polish Underground. Polonophobic Jewish Preconceptions Limited Jews Saved (But Nowadays Only Poles Get Blamed For It)

Richard Glazer, a Czech Jew, mentions his life in German-occupied Prague and then his arrival at Treblinka. Naked for the “shower”, he gets pulled out of the line to the gas chamber by an SS man, and diverted to forced labor.

THE TREBLINKA REVOLT AND THE RELATIVELY HIGH SURVIVORSHIP OF JEWS WHO FLED

Glazer then elaborates his experiences in Treblinka, giving a particularly good description of typhus and how it flourishes under the unsanitary conditions and is spread by lice (pp. 72-73). Glazer escapes Treblinka during the famous August 1943 revolt. He eventually gets caught by a Volksdeutsche, but avoids the death sentence for being a Jew, and ends up a forced laborer in Germany, where he is liberated. Glazer also recounts his “reunion” with 54 still-living Treblinka escapees during the trials of the Nazi war criminals in West Germany in the 1960’s (pp. 195-196).

JEWISH POLONOPHOBIC PREJUDICES, AND NOT “POLISH HOSTILITY OR INDIFFERENCE”, PREVENTED MORE JEWS FROM BEING SAVED.

Some Polish Jews discussing the possibility of escaping from Treblinka tried to discourage it by sinking to new lows of Polonophobic mythmaking. They actually asserted that Poles who help Jews no longer exist at all, and that 9 out of 10 Poles betray Jews (p. 84)–all without even stopping to think about the self-refuting nature of their absurdities. Just two sentences earlier, they had spoken about Jews who had escaped from Treblinka and returned to the Ghettos to warn the remaining Jews there (p. 83). If anything other than a trivial fraction of Poles betrayed Jews (let alone 9/10) then no Jews who escaped from Treblinka would’ve survived more than a day, let alone at least 54!

Nowadays, all we hear are complaints that “so few Jews” survived the (German-made) Holocaust in Poland because (as always) it is the Poles’ fault. Now how many Jews were not saved because they NEVER TRIED owing to their anti-Polish prejudices?

JEW-KILLING, LIKE POLE-KILLING, DONE BY BANDITS, NOT BY THE POLISH UNDERGROUND

In contrast, some Jews who contemplated the possibility of escaping from Treblinka recognized the fact that killers of fugitive Jews in the area around Treblinka were not, as often alleged, members of the Polish Underground (the AK and NSZ). They were simply bandits, many of whom pretended to be members of the AK and NSZ, and who killed both Jews and non-Jews at will. Glazar realizes as much as he writes, “A few kilometers farther into the woods you would come upon the partisans, and then a gang with nothing in common with partisans than the name. They rob, and they murder; they don’t care whom they attack by night.” (p. 105)

AUTHOR GLAZER SURVIVED BY BEING HELPED BY A SUCCESSION OF POLISH BENEFACTORS

When Richard Glazer actually escaped from Treblinka, he spent much time traversing the Polish countryside. He describes his peregrinations and the help he received from Poles. He passed by a long series of Polish villages, including Ostrow (p. 149), Wiszkow, Radzymin (p. 150), Rembertow, Solejuwky (p. 151), “…Piaseczno, Gora Kalwaria, Grojec, Mogielnica—those are the exotic-sounding names of towns passed through, more or less without incident.” (p. 153). He had to evade a column of Germans. Yet not once did he indicate any threat from Polish blackmailers or denouncers. And, when he was finally caught, it was not by a Pole but by a Volksdeutsche (p. 153).

How many betrayals of fugitive Jews, automatically blamed on ethnic Poles, were actually the deeds of the Volksdeutschen?