Jew Killing WWII By Poles Justified Kuperhand

Shadows of Treblinka, by Miriam Kuperhand, Saul Kuperhand. 1998

Polish Killings of Fugitive Jews Were Justified. Zydokomuna “Fear of Nazis” Excuse Doesn’t Hold

This account of Treblinka escapees Miriam and Saul Kuperhand (hereafter MK and SK), contains seldom-told ancillary details about Polish-Jewish relations during the German-made Holocaust.

THE ZYDOKOMUNA: REVEALING STATEMENTS. “FEAR OF NAZIS” EXCULPATION FAILS

MK denies widespread 1939 Jewish-Communist collaboration, yet makes the following eye-opening statement: “I had no compunctions about cooperating with our Russian occupiers.” (p. 16), despite the fact that: “I did not understand the precariousness of our situation with the Nazis just a few kilometers away.” (p. 16). This adds to similar Jewish testimonies, refuting the exculpation that Jews collaborated with the Soviet invaders in 1939 out of fear of falling into the hands of the Germans.

POLES WERE WELL JUSTIED IN KILLINGS FUGITIVE JEWS. MOREOVER, JEWISH BANDITRY FLOURISHED EVEN WHEN THE FUGITIVE JEWS WERE NOT IN DIRE NEED

Either the fugitive Jew starved or the Polish peasant starved. It was either my life or your life.

However, it would be a mistake to think that fugitive Jews resorted to thievery and armed robbery of Poles only when they had no other means of getting provisions. Indeed, a band of Treblinka escapees immediately threatened a farmer at gunpoint (p. 130), and waylaid individual farmers who were transporting goods (pp. 132-133). On another occasion, the Jewish band held a farmer hostage (p. 153).

Given such events, and as word got around, is it surprising that some Polish peasants came to see fugitive Jews as adversaries rather than victims, and to believe German propaganda that portrayed fugitive Jews as bandits that should be denounced or liquidated? Is it surprising that some Polish peasants and POLICJA GRANATOWA (Polish Blue Police) joined the so-called JUDENJAGD (Hunt for the Jews–as propounded by Jan Grabowski vel Abrahamer)?

THE FRIVOLOUSNESS OF JEWISH ACCUSATIONS AGAINST POLES: SOME EXAMPLES

The accounts of Poles denouncing and killing fugitive Jews, reported by both Kuperhands (e. g., p. 46, 50-51,156), are unmistakably secondary. Hearsay! Their only eyewitness experience of such a comparable incident was at the hands of common criminals (smugglers) of unidentified nationality (pp. 65-67).

Let’s focus on two anti-Polish accounts. SK, who was housed by peasant Anthony Shlewanowsky, reports that Shlewanowsky had warned him about a nearby peasant, Maximiuk, who allegedly took some Jews in, fed them and built a shelter for them, and, that very night, suffocated them in their shelter (pp. 140-141). Did Shlewanowsky know this for a fact? Besides, it makes no sense. Why go to the trouble of feeding some Jews, and especially constructing a shelter for them, only to turn around and kill them a few hours later? And is it probable that a near-surface rustic shelter was so airtight that it could be used to asphyxiate its inhabitants? Peasants are good storytellers. What if Maximiuk (who, BTW, sounds Ukrainian, not Polish), just made up this lurid tale in order to scare Jews away from his property? Ditto for the story, told by one Polish farmer, of another Polish farmer who was said to have turned-in his Jewish-butcher friend (p. 50).

Now consider the tale of a Jewish mother and children in the forest, being denounced by a Pole, begging for life and then pleading to be allowed to cover her children with a blanket before they were both shot by the arriving German (pp. 149-150). One of her sons, a ten year-old, away from the hideout at the time, had spotted the Germans and ran away. How could he have seen and heard such details (including the Polish ethnicity of the denouncer) if he was already at a safe distance and running further away? Assuming he simply heard Polish being spoken, how could he know that the denouncer was not a Polish-speaking Ukrainian or German (Volksdeutsche)?