Language:
Polish
Year of publication:
2015
Titel der Quelle:
Kwartalnik Historii Zydów
Angaben zur Quelle:
254 (2015) 317-335
Keywords:
World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Public opinion
Abstract:
Analyzes the attitude of the Polish Underground State (i.e. the government-in-exile in England and the Armia Krajowa) towards the persecution of Jews between 1939-1945. In 1939-41, the underground had sympathy for the Jews but considered the Poles to be the main target of persecution. There was also a prevalent conviction at the time that the Jews betrayed the Poles in supporting the Soviet occupation of eastern Poland (the Jews' actions were, of course, exaggerated). A change took place at the end of 1942, when information spread about mass murders of Jews. The organization Żegota was established to help rescue Jews. But between 1943-45, the PUS classified Jewish underground units and Jews in hiding as "foreign" or "red", and consequently viewed them as enemies. Although there were instances of Polish-Jewish brotherhood-in-arms, this was not the rule during the war period, nor can one say that the PUS was a helper or beneficiary in the Holocaust. Contests both these views, which arose in the recent ceremonies marking the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising.
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