A film about a Polish village whose residents help massacre their Jewish neighbours in World War II has forced Poles to confront one of the most troubling episodes of their past.
Caption : Jedwabne Massacre July 1941
Via Mawyl
Caption : Jedwabne Massacre July 1941
Via Mawyl
"“Poklosie”, or Aftermath, touches on a subject that many Poles prefer not to discuss - cases where Poles were complicit with the Nazis in rounding up, and in some cases, killing Jews." Guess what the answer is yes, what a surprise !
According to Morde-khai Tenenbaum, commander of the Jewish Fighting Organization in the Bialystok ghetto, whose memoirs were published shortly after the war:
A somewhat more moderate but still strongly critical view was expressed by Emanuel Ringelblum in his Polish-Jewish Relations during the Second World War, written in hiding on the "Aryan" side in 1944: