Postwar Poland Hid Jewishness of Deaths Myth Debunked Smolen

State Museum in Oswiecim Auschwitz Birkenau Guide-Book, by Kazimierz (translator: Lee, Stephen) Smolen.

Once Again Debunks the Myth That Polish Authorities Tried to Hide Jewish Deaths. [Is It a Jewish-Promoted Role-Reversal, a Diversion From Jews Hiding Polish Deaths?]

According to a well-worn Polonophobic meme, Poles, in the first few decades after WWII, tried to ignore the fact that most of the victims of Auschwitz were Jews—and did so by deliberate omission or by disguising Jewish deaths as Polish deaths. This book, written in 1965, at the height of Communist rule over Poland, is yet another refutation of that ridiculous canard.

Far from treating Jews as some sort of generic “victims of fascism”, this book prominently discusses the first few years of Nazi rule in Germany, and how Jews were singled out for persecution in accordance with the Nuremberg Laws. (pp. 7-8). Ditto for the Shoah. When elaborating on the various peoples who perished at Auschwitz-Birkenau, it explicitly identifies Jews as Jews. (pp. 18-19, 24, 88).

In addition, it is untrue that Polish mentions of various nations, in conjunction with arrivals at Auschwitz-Birkenau, is some kind of underhanded effort to hide the fact that the arrivals were Jews. When mentioning arrivals from Greece, author Smolen specifies the victims as Jews. (p. 19).

FALSELY ACCUSING POLAND OF SOMETHING THAT JEWS VERY MUCH DO FOR REAL. THEN MOVING THE GOALPOSTS

For the last few decades, Holocaust supremacism has ruled over western societies, and all of the many genocides of non-Jews (including the Polokaust), when not ignored entirely, have been marginalized (e. g, the all-purpose “other victims of the Nazis”). Could it be that Jewish accusations of Poles long ignoring Jewish deaths is a role reversal—a cover for the fact that it is Jews, and not Poles, that are ignoring others’ genocides?

As early Polish recognition of the fate of Jews comes to light, some Jews change the argument, and thus move the goalposts. They now say that Poles did not pay “enough” attention to the (presumed) specialness of the Jews’ Holocaust.

Go figure.