Language:
English
Year of publication:
1998
Titel der Quelle:
Polin; Studies in Polish Jewry
Angaben zur Quelle:
11 (1998) 183-191
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Rescue
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
World War, 1939-1945 Diplomatic history
;
Jews History 1939-1945
Abstract:
Analyzes the effects of the Polish government-in-exile's attitudes on the policies of the British government towards the "Jewish question" and the issue of the rescue of Polish Jews. States that the Polish desire to reduce the number of Jews in Poland influenced all the discussions between the two governments. The Poles wished to stimulate a large-scale Jewish emigration to Palestine and the British sought to implement the policy of the White Paper of 1939 which limited immigration. British officials knew about the antisemitism in interwar Poland and its persistence during the war. However, in 1941 they advised Poland to assimilate the Jews and not to try to get rid of them. This is why the issue of rescue of Jews from Poland was not raised in discussions between the British and Polish governments at any stage in the war. Concludes that the British attitude to the problem of the rescue of the Jews showed a failure of elementary human solidarity and shows how this attitude was connected with the attitude of Poles towards the Jewish population.
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