Language:
English
Year of publication:
1996
Titel der Quelle:
Yad Vashem Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
25 (1996) 181-196
Keywords:
Jews
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jewish ghettos
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Church history 20th century
Abstract:
Gives the text (on pp. 182-183) of a handbill entitled "Protest", written by the Polish-Catholic writer Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, and issued by the Front Odrodzenia Polski in August 1942. The handbill, appealing to Poles to condemn the crime of the Nazi genocide of the Jews, is also blatantly antisemitic. Reflects on this seemingly contradictory document. Kossak-Szczucka's logic, though, is consistent with traditional Polish antisemitic thought, which viewed the Jews as "Poland's innate enemies" and called for separation from them, but at the same time, following Christian commandments, ruled out genocide. This type of antisemitism does not kill nor does it rule out compassion and active help for Jews. But it contributes to the intensification of anti-Jewish prejudice, and indirectly lays the burden of shared blame on Polish society for the destruction of the Jews.
Note:
English and Hebrew. Appeared in Hebrew also in
,
"החשבון הפולני - עימות עם זיכרון" (2007) 49-62
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Appeared in Polish as "Polak-katolik i katolik-polak; nakaz ewangeliczny, interes narodowy i solidarność obywatelska wobec zagłady getta warszawskiego" in "Przeciw antysemityzmowi 1936-2009" I (2010) 707-721.
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