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Polish PM's father says Jews willingly walked into ghettos
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Published: 22.03.18, 12:57
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1. I do not know what Morawiecki senior meant
Tomek ,   Lublin   (03.22.18)
but his comment taken verbatim is offensive to both Poles and Jews. He probably equates non-resisting with willingness which is not correct. If I am ordered to do something and I comply without resisting out of fear, it does not mean I did it willingly. Quite contrary.
2. Meanwhile
Empress Trudy ,   Raleigh   (03.22.18)
YNET is so psychotically opposed to Bibi they will largely ignore this and eventually come to embrace it
3. Good that the Jews now have a place of refuge
Julius ,   Baltimore, USA   (03.22.18)
Now, if they can only reach a final resolution of it's Arab problem, we'll all live happily ever after.
4. "Nasty"...implies nothing about the facts!
Robert Blum ,   New Albany   (03.22.18)
In 1918, Polish officers from Lemberg, led their soldiers into Lwow and murdered 150 Jews, and seriously injured hundreds more. They ransacked and looted their homes and according to the Polish Foreign Ministry, 500 Jewish businesses were also ransacked and looted. President Wilson's 'Morgenthau Commission' discovered 8 cities in Poland in which atrocities against Jews were committed in 1918, including the execution of 35 Jews in Pinsk on trumped up charges of Bolshevism. July 4, 1946 in Kielce, Poland, the Poles murdered 42 Jewish people and seriously wounded 40 more. In august 1946, the Poles demanded the Jews to leave radom & also Przmysl by the end of the month. They were then beaten and some were murdered. This was repeated in Lublin, Sanok, Grojec, opatow, Gniewoszow and Raciez. On August 11, 1945 in Rabka, the synagogue was ransacked and destroyed, including the holy Torah scrolls and 3 times, the hospital for Jewish orphans had hand grenades thrown inside wounding and killing innocent children, until there was a forced closure. The hate continued in Krakow, where Jews injured nearly to death, were tormented and threatend and beaten by the nurses and ambulence crews! So much for Polish virtue and love of indigenous Jewish people, etc. During World War 2, when the Nazis entered Jedwabne, Poland, the mayor joyfully led the equally joyful Poles in the massacre of 1,600 Jewish people who they coralled into a synagogue and burned to death. the Poles gladly instituted the Nazi's Nuremberg laws even befor the Germans invaded Poland, making it illegal for Jews to practice medicine in 1937 and to go to law school, and to be journalists and to gain or hold licenses to practice law.
5. POLAND
HERMAN ROSEN   (03.22.18)
JEWISH HOMES WERE CONFISCATED WITH POLISH NEIGHBORS
TAKING THEM ...THE JEWS WERE FORCED INTO THE GHETTOS
THIS IS JUST ANOTHER ATTACK..ON JEWS ..THIS TIME COMING FROM
MOROWIEKI...JUST ONE OF MILLIONS OF POLISH ANTISEMITES
6. So that's why the Nazis woke them at 2:00 in the morning...
David ,   Hartford USA   (03.22.18)
And ordered them out with one suitcase. In order to get them away from the unpleasant Poles! I didn't know the Nazis were so considerate!

So many documented histories by renown historians, so many first-person oral testimonies at Yad Vashem and the Spielberg Foundation's oral histories project, the list goes on and on, tell different stories.

What's this tell us? That Poles are still covering up for their deplorable behavior of their fellow citizens, 70 years later!

What's it also tell us about the father? He's covering up for what his father did during the war. I wonder- if you trace back the ownership of the PM's father's property, how was it acquired? Stolen from some Jewish family that moved into the ghetto to simply get away from their unpleasant Polish neighbors???

There are millions of Poles living in properties and 'owning' properties that they never purchased. That's called 'receiving stolen goods.' It's a crime. And for all the children of the war-time 'new' owners, having a stolen piece of property bequeathed to you doesn't negate the fact that it was stolen in the first place and therefore it still belongs to someone else. I bet you look over your shoulder all the time, dreading the time when some foreigner walks up to your front door and says, "You're living in my grandfather's house- and he never sold it. I'm moving back in."

Yes, dear Polish neighbors, how many of you are living in stolen property? How many millions of acres of stolen farmland are being farmed by farmers hoping nobody will ever ask how they came to own such a nice piece of land? How many major building in major cities have been built on stolen Jewish property? 70 years of back rent is due.

And now the Poles are telling themselves (and us!) that the ghettoization was all to make the Jews more comfortable, to be away from their unpleasant Polish neighbors! That they WANTED to live like that!!

The PM may be noxious, but the PM's father is a certifiable POS.

Maybe it's time for Yad Vashem to use its massive database to cross reference every Jewish property in Poland 1935 and to see who claimed ownership in 1946. Then, naming all those new 'owners' in major Polish newspapers, locate all those property transfers in the Polish land records and find out, once and for all, how the property was acquired. I want to see all those Bills-of-Sale and title transfers, signed by both parties..

For the trickle of good decent Poles who risked their lives to save their Jewish neighbors, there was a virtual flood of Poles who couldn't wait for their neighbors to be carted off to the camps, so that they could steal everything they could get their hands on, from personal property to real estate.

The Polish PM and his father are trying to rewrite history. Too bad that Poland's own land records refute everything they say. Too bad that the collective cultural memory of the surviving Polish Jews told, and still tells, a very different story.
7. Jews were ordered into the Ghettos by the Germans,not
J.K. ,   Brooklyn USA   (03.22.18)
obeying the order meant death,once in the Ghetto,Jews didn't escape,because the Jews feared the poles more than the Germans,unlike the Germans,the
poles knew who is a Jew,and many poles informed on them to the Germans,as a Jewish woman disguised as Christian recalled,i was more afraid of the poles than of the Germans,the poles used to whisper around me "look at her sad Jewish eyes"had the Jews refused to enter the ghettos,the poles would have murdered them in their homes,like the Lithuanians did in Lithuania,why can't the poles come out and admit,yes,many poles did kill Jews,like the other Nations in Europe,the Madiars,the Romanians,the Lithuanians,the Slovaks,the Croats,the Ukrainians,even the French and the Italians,the Dutch collaborated with the Germans,in the extermination of the Jewish population,among the above mentioned Nations there were individuals who saved Jews,a polish organization,called Zaguda rescued 27000 Jews,700 poles were killed by the Germans for hiding Jews,it is estimated,200,000 Jews were killed by poles,the Germans admitted what they did,the others are in denial.
8. Beside daytime savings, the clock has been reset by 70years!
(03.23.18)
9. And the,,
Julius ,   Baltimore, USA   (03.23.18)
The Polack Russian Milekowsky's were selling real estate there,,, "in da ghetto". Bibi is "the son of a Bibi"
10. You can polish the Polish, but like a turd it'll stay smelly
(03.24.18)
11. Only anti semitic savages beat & murder Jewish children the
BBB   (04.07.18)
elderly and those ill in ambulances. That wasn't war it was murder, premeditated murder at the hands of Polish demons.
12. Many of Poland’s agricultural fields grow on “Jewish Ash”
EuropeHugeJewishGrav ,   Jerusalem   (05.22.19)
All over Poland and in the areas of the mass graves Poles grow their crops “ their wheat fields “nourished” by the ash of Jewish men women children and Jewish infants in Latvia the locals sit on the Baltic Beaches enjoying the sea view and watching the cruise ships sail by on top of dunes beneath their beach chairs filled with the
Jewish Dead their neighbors Of Lepjei..Europe is one huge graveyard of the Jews who were brought to Europe as slaves by the Roman
European armies 70-136 Only to torture them there for 1900 years
13. "Willingly "???
Alex   (05.25.19)
What a load of BS. Something similar to the Syrians who willingly waited for Assad's barrel bombs to fall on their heads and poison their children.
When they try to deceive, they only deceive themselves.
14. Polish hate
Doug klein ,   Ft kauderdale   (05.26.19)
Once again the pollacks demonstrate their hate justifying why we still detest that country. Never forget. Never ever forgive t
15. Absolute TRUTH. It was .under German Occupation.
TheWall   (06.12.19)
Most Jews don't like this very simple fact, but it IS Fact.
Jews were told that under specific conditions for which they could not resist.
So, it is a very simple fact, to which Poles had nothing to do.
Somebody doesn't agree? ...then read books stories by survivors.There are hundreds on Amazon before you open your mouth.
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