Atrocities Jewish Complicity Koniuchy Massacre Lazar

Destruction and Resistance, by Chaim Lazar, Chaim Lazar Litai. 1985

Massive Jewish Banditry Provokes Polish Reprisals. Jewish Complicity in the Koniuchy Massacre of Poles. Jewish Gestapo Agents. Double Standards

The author came from Vilna (Wilno, Vilnius) and survived the mass shootings of Jews at Ponary. (pp. 30-31).

POLES ACTUALLY TRIED TO HIDE AMONG JEWS! AND JEWS WEREN’T HELPFUL

Nowadays, we never hear the end of complaints that Poles “did not do enough” to aid Jews during the Holocaust. So let us now examine an earlier-WWII ironic role-reversal.

For a time, [as in the Warsaw Ghetto], fugitive Poles sought shelter from Germans among the Jews of the Vilna Ghetto. (pp. 92-93). Were the Jews eager to help Poles in their hour or need? Hardly. Lazar writes: “It was feared that some Poles would want to infiltrate the ghetto to hide there. The ghetto entrances were sealed off to prevent provocation by the Poles, which could end in disaster for the Jews.” (p. 92). [Poles engaged in similar self-protection. Many likewise chose not to risk their lives by aiding fugitive Jews. After the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, they sometimes denounced Jewish escapees in Aryan Warsaw out of fear of draconian German reprisals. Yet—surprise—only Poles are nowadays blamed for such self-protective conduct.]

JEWS ARE NOT FAULTED FOR REFUSING TO SUPPORT JEWISH GUERILLA RESISTANCE: POLES ARE

While forming a Jewish partisan group, Lazar encountered reluctance from the Zionist Betar, in part because of political differences, and because the Betar didn’t want to support those having dubious military skills. (p. 87). [Not mentioned is the fact that the Polish Underground’s unwillingness to fully support Jewish resistance owed to the same reasons–which Lazar summarily dismissed as “Polish hatred”. (p. 51). Nice double standard.]

JEWISH-NAZI COLLABORATION, AS BY THE JUDENRAETE AND BY JEWISH GESTAPO AGENTS

Instead of the selective outrage, as by the media-touted Jan T. Gross, regarding the Polish “acquisitiveness” of post-Jewish properties, Lazar also recounts how the Jewish police “…pillaged the property and jewelry of the Jews.” (p. 46). Later, Judenrat leaders betrayed Jews, who were engaged in resistance action, to the Gestapo. (pp. 78-79, 84). After the Vilna ghetto had been liquidated, one of the Jewish Gestapo agents, Dessler, was known to be working for the Germans against the Poles. (p. 108).

POLISH KILLINGS OF FUGITIVE JEWS (AS IN THE JUDENJAGD) WERE WELL JUSTIFIED

Referring to his forest life, Lazar describes events essentially corroborated by Polish sources. At times, Jewish-peasant relations were friendly. (p. 148, 165, 177). However, Jewish bands, unable to feed themselves solely by buying food from peasants, made forays (read: mass banditry) against them. (p. 134-on). (The reader should remember that Poles also had to live, and that wartime banditry is usually a capital crime.) Moreover, this was no petty larceny: The confiscated booty, accomplished by force or threats of force and taking of peasant hostages (p. 135), amounted to several wagonloads of goods per raid (p. 134, 163), and was certainly known to impoverish the peasants. (pp. 172-173). Not surprisingly, Polish guerrillas (AK and NSZ) pursued and destroyed, or attempted to destroy, Jewish bands engaged in banditry. (pp. 163-on). Also not surprisingly, the rural Poles sought protection by requesting and sometimes obtaining weapons from the Germans for self-defense, and perhaps also by denouncing fugitive Jews and Jewish bands to the Germans. (pp. 135-136).

JEWISH COMPLICITY IN THE POLOKAUST: THE MASS MURDER OF POLISH MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN AT KONIUCHY

If one is capable of overlooking his colorful embellishments (e. g., “nest of bands”, “center of intrigues”, “well-armed”, “villainy”, “leading every attack on the partisans”, etc.), Lazar essentially admits that the Jewish-Soviet attack on Koniuchy was a cold-blooded massacre of Polish farmers–a collective reprisal for their self-defense against earlier Jewish banditry. He writes: “For some time it had been known that the village Koniuchy was a nest of bands and the center of intrigues against the partisans. Its residents, known for their villainy, were organizing people in the area, distributing arms among them which they received from the Germans, and leading every attack on the partisans.” Lazar then describes the massacre itself: “One evening a hundred and twenty [attackers]…There were about 50 Jews among them, headed by Yaakov Prenner…The order was not to leave any one alive…The mission was accomplished within a short while. Sixty households, numbering about 300 people, were destroyed, with no survivors.” (pp. 174-175).

This book was originally written in Hebrew in 1950. Ironic to those who now belittle its “obscure author”, undoubtedly because of its now-unwelcome information about Koniuchy, it has stood the test of time, being deemed worthy enough to be translated into English in 1985. [Was the author candid about Koniuchy because he had figured that its readership would remain small, and essentially limited to Hebrew readers?]

The fact of the Koniuchy Massacre, and large-scale Jewish complicity in it, is confirmed by archival information in several nations. See my review of INTERMARIUM, by Chodakiewicz.

FRIVOLOUS ACCUSATIONS OF POLES KILLING FUGITIVE JEWS

Lazar once came across the decomposing remains of Jews in an underground shelter, and decared, “They had been murdered by the Poles.” (p. 164). Since the bodies were decomposed–moreover slowly under the wintertime conditions–the killings had occurred a long time ago. So how could he possibly know the nationality of the killers?