Jew Killing WWII By Poles 200,000 Arbitrary Zimmerman
Pick Your Arbitrary Numerical Figure of Fugitive Jews in German-Occupied Poland: 300,000? 200,000? Or Maybe 100,000 (Or Less)? So How Many of These Imagined Jews Were Killed or Denounced by Poles?
Most of this book is the standard fare, and I focus on a few items of lasting interest.
JEWISH BANDITRY, IN THE COUNTRYSIDE OF GERMAN-OCCUPIED POLAND, INDUCED PROTECTIVE POLISH DENUNCIATIONS AND KILLINGS OF FUGITIVE JEWS
Long after this book was published, the issue was brought to public attention by the media-hyped JUDENJAGD (Hunt for the Jews) by Jan Grabowski vel Abrahamer. Interestingly, this issue had already been discussed, in this book, by Shmuel Krakowski, an archivist at Yad Vashem. Although a long-term earlier Communist apparatchik, he shows an element of fairness to Poles in his analysis of what has come to be known, in Holocaustspeak, as the JUDENJAGD. [Note that there is no parallel term, the POLENJAGD, for the German search of wanted Poles.]
Krakowski cites the testimony of Francizek Kotula, a Polish teacher and diarist. The following is a diary entry from December 31, 1942, “‘It is a matter of fact that different Jewish detachments came into being. They even gained weapons from somewhere. In order to live, they had to take products from the peasants, who are anyway robbed without mercy by the Germans. The ROBBED PEASANTS show the Germans the possible Jewish hiding places or the direction where to hunt them. ‘” (p. 101. Emphasis added). And why not?
STEP RIGHT UP AND PICK YOUR NUMBER (OF FUGITIVE JEWS), OF WHOM ONLY 40,000—60,000 AVOIDED DENUNCIATION AND SURVIVED THE GERMAN OCCUPATION: 100,000(OR LESS)
200,000? 300,000? OR MAYBE EVEN MORE
Numbers don’t matter: What matters is the blaming of Poland for one thing or another. I, however, discuss some numbers for the benefit of the interested reader. They make it obvious that the arbitrary large numbers exist for media sensationalism and propaganda purposes. In addition, the 50% fugitive-Jew survival rate, accepted by Holocaust scholar Gunnar S. Paulsson quoted below, alone debunks the media-created notion that Poles were some sort of eager Jew-killers. [In addition, remember that many fugitive Jews were caught directly by Germans without any sort of Polish assistance, whether compelled or “voluntary”.] Paulsson’s findings also debunk the myth that a fugitive Jew in Poland had almost no chance of surviving his encounters with Poles, and even more so the Polonophobic canard that a Jew was almost in as much danger from the Poles as he was from the Germans. [For Jews that chose to remain in the German-made ghettoes, their mortality was close to 100%.]
Shmuel Krakowski (p. 100) estimated a total of at least 300,000 fugitive Jews. [With 40,000—60,000 fugitive Jewish survivors, this comes out to a 13%–20% survival rate.]
Recently, Jan T. Gross, Jan Grabowski vel Abrahamer, and Barbara Engelking, have been going around promoting a figure of as many as 200,000 fugitive Jews (only 100,000 less than Krakowski). [With 40,000—60,000 fugitive Jewish survivors, this comes out to a 20%–30% survival rate.]
Finally, Gunnar S. Paulsson (p. 176) comes up with: 27,000 fugitive Jews in Warsaw alone, which, comprising an inferred 1/4th of all fugitive Jews in Poland, thus amounting to 100,000 total fugitive Jews in German-occupied Poland. Using other indicators, he infers an astonishingly-high 50% overall fugitive Jew survival rate. [With 40,000—60,000 fugitive Jewish survivors, out of 100,000 originally, this comes out to 40%–60% survival rate.]
Here is how Paulsson describes his findings, “It can therefore be asserted with reasonable confidence that the number of Jews who found hiding places in Nazi-occupied Warsaw at one time or another was in the neighborhood of 27,000…From the proportion of Warsaw cases among survivor testimonies in the files of the Department of the Righteous at Yad Vashem, and other sources, it appears further that Warsaw accounted for about one-quarter of the Jews hiding in Poland, not one-half, as Ringelblum had guessed. Thus Poland had given asylum not to 30,000 but to about 100,000 Jews…Only about half of these Jews survived.” (p. 176, 191).
MANY MORE POLISH BENEFACTORS THAN POLISH BLACKMAILERS (SZMALCOWNIKI)
Gunnar S. Paulsson concludes that, “Summing up the numbers, then: in a city of a million people, there were roughly 50,000—60,000 people actively involved in helping Jews in significant ways and 1,000—2,000 people involved in significantly harming them.” (pp. 188-189). [The reader must remember that most SZMALCOWNIKI only extorted money from fugitive Jews, and did not actually follow through on their threats to betray these Jews to the Nazis.]
Pick Your Arbitrary Numerical Figure of Fugitive Jews in German-Occupied Poland: 300,000? 200,000? Or Maybe 100,000 (Or Less)? So How Many of These Imagined Jews Were Killed or Denounced by Poles?
Most of this book is the standard fare, and I focus on a few items of lasting interest.
JEWISH BANDITRY, IN THE COUNTRYSIDE OF GERMAN-OCCUPIED POLAND, INDUCED PROTECTIVE POLISH DENUNCIATIONS AND KILLINGS OF FUGITIVE JEWS
Long after this book was published, the issue was brought to public attention by the media-hyped JUDENJAGD (Hunt for the Jews) by Jan Grabowski vel Abrahamer. Interestingly, this issue had already been discussed, in this book, by Shmuel Krakowski, an archivist at Yad Vashem. Although a long-term earlier Communist apparatchik, he shows an element of fairness to Poles in his analysis of what has come to be known, in Holocaustspeak, as the JUDENJAGD. [Note that there is no parallel term, the POLENJAGD, for the German search of wanted Poles.]
Krakowski cites the testimony of Francizek Kotula, a Polish teacher and diarist. The following is a diary entry from December 31, 1942, “‘It is a matter of fact that different Jewish detachments came into being. They even gained weapons from somewhere. In order to live, they had to take products from the peasants, who are anyway robbed without mercy by the Germans. The ROBBED PEASANTS show the Germans the possible Jewish hiding places or the direction where to hunt them. ‘” (p. 101. Emphasis added). And why not?
STEP RIGHT UP AND PICK YOUR NUMBER (OF FUGITIVE JEWS), OF WHOM ONLY 40,000—60,000 AVOIDED DENUNCIATION AND SURVIVED THE GERMAN OCCUPATION: 100,000(OR LESS)
200,000? 300,000? OR MAYBE EVEN MORE
Numbers don’t matter: What matters is the blaming of Poland for one thing or another. I, however, discuss some numbers for the benefit of the interested reader. They make it obvious that the arbitrary large numbers exist for media sensationalism and propaganda purposes. In addition, the 50% fugitive-Jew survival rate, accepted by Holocaust scholar Gunnar S. Paulsson quoted below, alone debunks the media-created notion that Poles were some sort of eager Jew-killers. [In addition, remember that many fugitive Jews were caught directly by Germans without any sort of Polish assistance, whether compelled or “voluntary”.] Paulsson’s findings also debunk the myth that a fugitive Jew in Poland had almost no chance of surviving his encounters with Poles, and even more so the Polonophobic canard that a Jew was almost in as much danger from the Poles as he was from the Germans. [For Jews that chose to remain in the German-made ghettoes, their mortality was close to 100%.]
Shmuel Krakowski (p. 100) estimated a total of at least 300,000 fugitive Jews. [With 40,000—60,000 fugitive Jewish survivors, this comes out to a 13%–20% survival rate.]
Recently, Jan T. Gross, Jan Grabowski vel Abrahamer, and Barbara Engelking, have been going around promoting a figure of as many as 200,000 fugitive Jews (only 100,000 less than Krakowski). [With 40,000—60,000 fugitive Jewish survivors, this comes out to a 20%–30% survival rate.]
Finally, Gunnar S. Paulsson (p. 176) comes up with: 27,000 fugitive Jews in Warsaw alone, which, comprising an inferred 1/4th of all fugitive Jews in Poland, thus amounting to 100,000 total fugitive Jews in German-occupied Poland. Using other indicators, he infers an astonishingly-high 50% overall fugitive Jew survival rate. [With 40,000—60,000 fugitive Jewish survivors, out of 100,000 originally, this comes out to 40%–60% survival rate.]
Here is how Paulsson describes his findings, “It can therefore be asserted with reasonable confidence that the number of Jews who found hiding places in Nazi-occupied Warsaw at one time or another was in the neighborhood of 27,000…From the proportion of Warsaw cases among survivor testimonies in the files of the Department of the Righteous at Yad Vashem, and other sources, it appears further that Warsaw accounted for about one-quarter of the Jews hiding in Poland, not one-half, as Ringelblum had guessed. Thus Poland had given asylum not to 30,000 but to about 100,000 Jews…Only about half of these Jews survived.” (p. 176, 191).
MANY MORE POLISH BENEFACTORS THAN POLISH BLACKMAILERS (SZMALCOWNIKI)
Gunnar S. Paulsson concludes that, “Summing up the numbers, then: in a city of a million people, there were roughly 50,000—60,000 people actively involved in helping Jews in significant ways and 1,000—2,000 people involved in significantly harming them.” (pp. 188-189). [The reader must remember that most SZMALCOWNIKI only extorted money from fugitive Jews, and did not actually follow through on their threats to betray these Jews to the Nazis.]
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