Jew Killing PostWWII By Poles Explained Kaminski

Reflections On The Kielce Pogrom, by Łukasz Kamiński

Poland’ s Holocaust-Surviving Jews Publicly Backed Soviet-Imposed Communism in An In-Your-Face-Manner. Postwar Jew-Killings By Poles Contextualized

This book is of variable quality: Hence the 3-star rating. Unfortunately, none of the authors attempt to come to grips with the manifold evidences of the Kielce Pogrom being a Soviet-staged event. However, Ryszard Smietanka-Kruszelnicki (p. 28) notes the difficulty of explaining why the disturbance was allowed to go on for hours, at a site in a major city that was located proximate to, and with unimpeded access from, the headquarters of police and security forces.

JEWS AND COMMUNISM (ZYDOKOMUNA). NON-COMMUNIST JEWISH POLITICAL PARTIES ENDORSED COMMUNISM

Formal political Jewish support for Communism went far beyond membership in the Communist Party, or participation in the Communist establishment. For example, according to Shaynok (p. 11), among Zionist organizations alone, the Poalei Zion Right was socialist, while the Paolei Zion Left and the Hashomer Hatzair were Communist-oriented.

A DELIBERATE JEWISH PROVOCATION AGAINST POLES. RETALIATORY POLISH VIOLENCE AGAINST JEWS?

Poland’s Holocaust-surviving Jews not only supported Communism, but even did so in an overt, in-your-face manner to Poles. For instance, on May Day in Walbrzych, there was a massive manifestation of Jewish support for Communism. The marchers included members of the Bund, the SZOMRZY (Hashomer Hatzair) in uniform, and members of the Jewish Committee. They all had banners, in Polish and in Yiddish, saying “Long Live Stalin!” No Poles could be heard chanting pro-Communist slogans. (Shaynok, p. 25).

All we hear is the lament that Poles occasionally killed Jews in post-WWII Poland. Surprise: We never year about the Jewish provocations that may have precipitated it.

In addition, postwar Polish violence against Jews must be placed in the broader context of the lawlessness caused by the brutalities of Nazi and then Communist subjugation. For example, in the Province of Kielce alone, and that only between July 1945 and February 1946, 5 Jews were murdered along with 130 Poles. (Bozena Szaynok, p. 17).

THE MYTH OF THE POSTWAR POLISH GOVERNMENT IGNORING THE JEWS’ HOLOCAUST

Neo-Stalinist authors such as Jan T. Gross would have us believe that the postwar Communist government in Poland was not particularly solicitous over the Jews, that it was eager to ” move on” relative to Poland’ s Jewish past, and that Poles and Jews were simply lumped together as “victims of fascism” and the like. Precisely the opposite was true. Szaynok (p. 19) presents several examples of how the Communist government curried favor with both Polish Jews and with what may be called “international Jewry”. While slandering the A. K. (Armia Krajowa), the Communist officials praised the heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in the Spring of 1945. These Stalinists equated the A. K. and N. S. Z. with Nazism (much as their neo-Stalinist and LEWAK imitators do today, albeit to a softer degree). Communist officials invited influential international Jewish organizations, such as the WJC (World Jewish Congress) to join the attack against General Wladyslaw Anders, and the president of one of the organizations reportedly demanded that General Anders be tried as a war criminal at Nuremberg. (p. 19).

Jan Zaryn (p. 99) identifies the influential Jew, Dr. Joseph Tenenbaum, the Chairman of the American Federation of Polish Jews, and later author of the anti-Polish propaganda piece, IN SEARCH OF A LOST PEOPLE, as one who tried to persuade Bierut to extradite the “anti-Semite” Wladyslaw Anders to be tried as a war criminal.

In conclusion, it is an undeniable fact that Jews were complicit, and disproportionately so, in the Communist subjugation of Poland. The time for this fact to be widely recognized is long overdue.

THE STANDARD DOUBLE STANDARDS

Throughout this book, there is a significant emphasis on the reaction (or failure thereof) of the Church towards the Kielce pogrom. A double standard existed. No such moral urgency was given to the Poles being tortured and murdered by Jewish Communists, and no parallel calls were made for influential Jews to condemn the Jewish involvement in the Soviet-sponsored apparatus.

KIELCE POGROM: INSUFFICIENT EXPLANATIONS

Bozena Shaynok bends over backwards to stereotype Poles as anti-Semites. In doing so, she misrepresents and dismisses scholars with whom she disagrees (pp. 129-on). For instance, she mischaracterizes historian Marek Chodakiewicz as one who denies or minimizes Polish anti-Semitism. He does not. He points out that anti-Semitism, by itself, is an insufficient explanation. Then again, accusations of anti-Semitism are the oldest Jewish and leftist tricks in the book.

Shaynok’s very cursory and dismissive treatment of Umarly cmentarz: Wstep do studiow nad wyjasnieniem przyczyn i przebiegu morderstwa na Zydach w Kielcach dnia 4 lipca 1946 roku (Polish Edition) can be corrected by actually reading it. Her understanding of Pytania nad pogromem kieleckim (Polish Edition) is no better.

The insufficiency of anti-Semitism as an explanation is illustrated by the fact that Polish-Jewish prejudices went both ways. See the free, online book, TRADITIONAL JEWISH ATTITUDES TOWARDS POLES, by Mark Paul.

RITUAL MURDER AT KIELCE – PROVES NOTHING

Nor does belief in some version of ritual murder, or blood libel, against some group, by itself, cause violence. For instance, Jews believed that Gypsies (Sinti and Roma) kidnap Jewish children for nefarious purposes. See, for example: Bialystok to Birkenau, and read the Peczkis review.