VOLKSDEUTSCHE and Policja Granatowa Bacall-Zwirn

No Common Place, by Alina Bacall-Zwirn. 2000

VOLKSDEUTSCHE. Polish Police” (POLICJA GRANATOWA) Commonly German-Led

The author recounts her experiences in a form of interviews given in the 1990’s, some fifty years after the events. She also expresses anger over those who deny that the Holocaust ever happened, and lists some of her loved ones who perished in this tragedy that supposedly never happened.

GERMAN LEADERSHIP OF MUCH OF THE POLICJA GRANATOWA

Alina Bacall-Zwirn understands the fact that much of the so-called Polish police, in the service of the Germans, actually consisted of ethnic Germans. She comments: “That was the Volksdeutsche, working for Gestapo. That was the Polish police.” (p. 40).

DODGING A GERMAN-PLANNED DEATH

The author lived in the Warsaw ghetto, and was shipped to Treblinka. She managed to jump from the train, and was aided by a Pole who brought her food (p. 35). She then made it back to Warsaw.

Later, she met with Poles who were being shipped to Germany for forced labor, and Poles who were incarcerated in concentration camps as a result of the Soviet-Betrayed Warsaw Uprising.