The neglected narrative: Polish Victims in The Shadow of The Holocaust
Before 1986, no American historian had written a systematic account of the Polish people under the German occupation. Prior to that time, the story of ethnic Poles had been subsumed … Continue reading
Remembering Katyń
On this day in 1940, a decision was made that would condemn thousands of Polish citizens to death and leave a scar on the conscience of Europe for generations. On … Continue reading
Poland Does Not Apologize for Surviving:
Poland today is not a relic of tragedy, nor a museum of sorrow frozen in 1944, nor a black and white photograph that the world may study safely from a … Continue reading
Deported for the Reich
The Forced Labor of Polish Civilians When people speak about German crimes in occupied Poland, public memory understandably moves first to ghettos and extermination camps, to places whose names have … Continue reading
The Polish Bar Association during WW2
Edward Reid Winter, Warsaw, 1940, and the German occupation authorities, already deep into the systematic dismantling of Polish civic life, demanded that the Polish Bar Association disbar its Jewish lawyers, … Continue reading
Stolen Futures: The Kidnapping of Polish Children Under German rule:
When Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, the assault that followed was not confined to battlefields or military strategy, but unfolded as a comprehensive ideological campaign grounded in racial doctrine, … Continue reading
Post-war silence on Poland
Poland did not emerge from the Second World War into peace so much as it emerged into silence, a silence imposed first by German occupation, where truth itself could be … Continue reading
On this day, 17 September in 1939, a second dagger was thrust into the heart of Poland.
At dawn on September 17, 600,000 Soviet soldiers, backed by tanks and planes, crossed the eastern frontier, fulfilling the secret terms of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. Poland, already bleeding from the … Continue reading
Ukraine protests at Poland’s move to mark Volhynia massacre as ‘genocide’
Krzysztof Mularczyk Ukraine has criticised Poland’s decision to create a new national day of remembrance commemorating Polish victims of the Volhynia massacre carried out by Ukrainian nationalists during the Second … Continue reading
Post-Jewish Property, Like Post-German Property, Legally Acquired by Poles
Uprooted: How Breslau Became Wroclaw During the Century of Expulsions, by Gregor Thum. 2011. Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford Post-German Property Just Like Post-Jewish Property: Poles Acted Properly This … Continue reading
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