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My Name Is Million: The Experiences of an Englishwoman in Poland (Classic Reprint), by Unknown. 2018

Eyewitness Englishwoman to the 1939 War, Good Polish-Lithuanian Relations, and Jewish Disloyalty to Poland in 1939

This book, originally published in 1940 by an anonymous Englishwoman who was married to a Pole, should not be confused two other books bearing the same title–A 1942 work by the famous Polish writer Adam Mickiewicz, and a 1978 book by W. S. Kuniczak.

THE 1939 WAR

The Englishwoman describes, in detail, the Polish mobilization to resist the German invasion, the absence of rain which prevented the bogging down of the German panzer columns, the Polish rejoicing when England (and France) professedly joined the war as Polish allies, the expected but not forthcoming British-French attack on Germany, the relentless advance and overpowering superiority of the German forces, etc. She was yet another eyewitness to the Luftwaffe’s bombing and strafing of defenseless Polish civilians. (e. g., p. 117).

Then the Soviet stab in the back came, which prevented a final Polish stand against the Germans in the Pripet Marshes (p. 190), and sealed yet another Partition of Poland. The Englishwoman’s travels from Warsaw eastward took her to the soon-to-be Soviet-occupied zone. She stayed in Wilno [Vilnius], and traveled through Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia before fleeing westward, getting caught by the Gestapo, released from a German port, and ending up in England.

GOOD LITHUANIAN-POLISH RELATIONS

For a time, the author associated with Lithuanians. Whatever grudge they had for Poles stemming from 1918-1939 Wilno-in-Poland was barely evident. The Lithuanians generally expressed friendship towards Poles, and even helped Polish Army remnants to hide so that they could flee the occupation zones and fight elsewhere in exile. (pp. 239-250).

1939 JEWISH DISLOYALTY TO POLAND: ZYDOKOMUNA UNFLINCHINGLY CONDEMNED

The Zydokomuna (Judeo-Bolshevism) has long divided Jews and Poles, and is seldom faced squarely even today. This Englishwoman describes her observations, which for this reason cannot be dismissed as Polish anti-Semitic imagination. Also, the Zydokomuna’s obvious enmity towards Poles and Poland negates the common exculpation that the Zydokomuna was merely a manifestation of Jewish gratitude to the Soviets for not having ended up in the hands of the Nazis.

The eyewitness Englishwoman has strong words as she writes: “As a class, the Jews went over wholesale to the Bolsheviks. In Wilno and elsewhere the worst type of Jew turned informer overnight. Thousands of the same Jews who had counted on the Polish Army to save them from Hitler arrived as refugees from the German occupation and proceeded to sell the Poles to the Russian occupation like hot cakes. Even the G.P.U. [Soviet secret police] agents whom they guided from house to house expressed contempt for these self-appointed jackals.” (pp. 245-246).

The effects of the Jewish-Soviet collaboration, on Poles, were unambiguous. She comments: “Nevertheless, the truth remains that within the Russian Occupation the patriot’s worst enemy at this time was his Jewish fellow citizen…Four or five long trains of prisoners left every day for Russia.” (p. 246).

The Englishwoman herself avoided denunciation, arrest, and deportation by the Soviets because Jewish homes were not searched, and she had been housed by a benevolent Jewish individual.