From: marios@ecs.comm.mot.com (mario smarduch)
Subject: Re: Nazi camps
Organization: trunking_fixed
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 19:44:07 GMT

In article <1992Aug27.095449.3793@walter.cray.com> aleks@cray.com (Aleksander Mazur) writes:
>
>In article <300@chorus.chorus.fr> mir@opera.chorus.fr (Adam Mirowski) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug26.102942.14139@walter.cray.com>, aleks@cray.com (Aleksander Mazur) writes:
>>
>>%% Did anybody count and classified victims ? I remember, that in block
>>%% I spent childhood in Poland there were 4 families (among 12) that
>>%% lost their relatives in Auschwitz, among them 1 Jewish family.
>>%% That proves nothing, but among victims were almost all
>>%% nationalities, certainly at the top were Jews and Poles. How do
>>%% you know Krzysztof, that Matthew was wrong ?
>>
>>Ridiculous. If all Polish Jews have been killed, in your block
>>there would be 3 families out of 11 that lost relatives in
>>Auschwitz, and none of them would be Jewish.
>>
>>-- 
>>Adam Mirowski,  mir@chorus.fr (FRANCE),  tel. +33 (1) 30-64-82-00 or 74
>>Chorus systemes, 6, av.Gustave Eiffel, 78182 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines CEDEX
>
> I really do not understand, what is so ridiculous, so maybe Adam
> can enlighten me. If in my block 7 Jewish families had been living,
> what would be proven that way ? And if only Ukrainian families ?
> Have you ever heard anything about migration in the world , also
> about migration during wars ? Or random distribution maybe ?
>  
>  Aleksander Mazur
>   
>

   I know two families + my uncle who lodged Jewish families in their basements
for the whole period of WWII to save them from the concentration camps. For 
these types of actions the Germans use to send the whole family to the 
concentration camps, but nevertheless they went out of their way to help these
Jewish families out. I also personally know of Catholic monastaries that
sustained Jewish children for the duration of the war. It seems that all
I read is resentment why the Polish people did not go out of their way to
stop the mass killing, but no one remembers the many good Polish people who
saved lives. Furthermore why only have resentment towards the Poles, should
there not be more resentment towards the Germans who built these camps?, or the
many Ukranians who serverd as guards in these camps? Furthermore why there
is no resentment towards the Allies who knew about the attrocities but preferred
to ignore them. I think there were many people in Poland who tried to do as
much as possible to help the Jewish community out, other then that Poland and
the Polish people have no reason to be blamed for anything; the blame should
be on the Germans who built these camps. Lets suppose the other way around
Poles in the Jewish nation and a massive extermination of Poles was taking
place, would Jewish people stop these attrocities or for that matter any other
nation, of course NOT because everyone has family to take care of and is
protective for their lives its instinctive. I could accept resentment if Poland
build these camps, but its not so its Germans that built them.

   Also, supposedly if these Polish people were so bad or for that matter
Poland was so antisemetic then why were there so many Jews in Poland prior
to WWII? The reason is that Poland always has been a tolerant country, 
whenever the Jewish communities were persecuted in Europe they always found
freedom in Poland, the fact they owned like 90% of the business prior to
WWII shows that Poland was tolerant.

mario s.