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Poland embarks on project to map all Jewish cemeteries
Kobi Nachshoni
Published: 08.12.18, 17:01
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1. And so we should visit that country only virtually!
(12.09.18)
2. The entire country is a Jewish cemetery.
David ,   Hartford USA   (12.11.18)
Jew were murdered in the death camps.
Jews were murdered in mobile killing trucks.
Jews were murdered in their own homes by the Nazis.
Jews were murdered in their own homes by the Polish police.
Jews were murdered in their own homes by their neighbors.
Jews were murdered in the forests.
Jews were murdered in sand pits.
Jews were murdered in the sewer systems.

Are we getting the full picture?

Too bad the Poles didn't have the courage to do this 60 or 70 years ago, but back then too many Poles made a 'killing' in the killing of Jews and it was too 'uncomfortable' for them to own up for their behavior.

Polish homeowners get nervous to this very day when foreigners slow down and start taking pictures of their homes. And they should be. The passage of time doesn't forgive their crimes.

All you have to do is look for the outline of the mezzuza on the door posts. Oh, it's been painted over many times by now, but the outline of that little box remains as silent witness to the atrocities committed upon the Jews. I'm sure many Poles have spent many hours sanding and repainting that spot over the years, to erase any possible connection to the past. But the past knows. We know. All of Poland is a Jewish cemetery and always will be.
3. At least with Poland you don't get to be "shocked": their
(12.15.18)
anti-Jewish -sentiment (I'm being delicately 'positive' here) has never left, so it's not like Britain/France or ...Germany, you get no nasty 'surprises', right?!
4. President
Krzysztof Nowak ,   KATYN 1940   (12.15.18)
Let's not forget during WWII-Holocaust not only Jews were killed. There are over 6 million Poles that were victims of not only the Nazi-German terror, but also there are victims of the Soviet-NKVD-KGB terror that lasted until 1989.
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