Supremacist denounced 'Piotrus' - Holocaust distorter still at it on Wikipedia w/ unreliable source

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Supremacist denounced 'Piotrus' - Holocaust distorter still at it on Wikipedia with that unreliable source

After this user has been exposed just recently:

Wikipedia’s Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust
Jan Grabowski & Shira Klein
Published online: 09 Feb 2023
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25785648.2023.2168939

Wikipedia 'intentionally' distorts history of the Holocaust, study claims

Paper demonstrates how small group of actors hijacks Holocaust-related entries on online encyclopedia to whitewash role of Polish society in genocide and bolster stereotypes about Jews

Itamar Eichner | published:02.12.23

The article implies that Jews, specifically a Jewish partisan unit, participated in the massacre. Wikipedia states that "25% of the partisans were Jewish, the Bielski partisans... might have supported the Soviets in the attack based on their ongoing relationship," and that witnesses who survived identified former members of the Bilaszki partisan unit – a mixed Jewish-Soviet force.

The authors note that these claims are unsupported by evidence, such as archived documents. Meaning, the Wikipedia article about the massacre in Naliboki shouldn’t mention Jews. Over the years, various editors have tried to correct the Wikipedia page, but they were rolled back by accounts named Piotrus and Volunteer Marek.

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hksrnqlts


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Days before the 'Day of Hate':
He has just created a separate page only to slam Jews, from a redirect [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jewish_collaboration_with_Nazi_Germany&oldid=969916149]

In truth, many Jews, who didn’t fit Nazi criteria for "looking Jewish," were offered to be free, but chose to die with their brothers and sisters and declaring, affirming they are 100% Jews. Many also posed as if "collaborating", only, as a cover for actually helping.

BLAMING THE VICTIM

I'm not going into the circumstances how one would want to defend his family from the Nazis at all cost, or the larger picture of concentrating thousands of people into a small place with limited food for a long period of time till they lose their mind VS Poles who actively helped the Nazis hunt Jews out of malice, or also for some zlotes money.
There is no question about Poles facilitating Nazis extermination such as in Auschwitz, Poland.

Reminder 'Every single Jew was in danger, by default fighting to survive. Poles were not.'

Though there were heroes among the Poles (Righteous Amomg the Nations - truly distinguished amazing people), still, per its population size, it's still stands as one of the lowest on record in this, and the masses of those who were actively involved in aiding the Nazis were massive. Besides, research also shows: "more than 200,000 Jews were killed" directly or indirectly by Poles.

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Piotrus here:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jewish_collaboration_with_Nazi_Germany&oldid=1141257593] deletes the reliable Jewish encyclopedia https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/

Piotrus who (since Aug/Sep 2009) has been basing his falsehoods campaign also on Tadeusz Piotrowski, a Polish sociologist who instead of recognizing his country's major part, chose to blame the victim by authoring half truths or fantasies. Not a historian.

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Paldiel, M. (2017). Saving One's Own: Jewish Rescuers During the Holocaust. United States: Jewish Publication Society.

In this remarkable, historically significant book, Mordecai Paldiel recounts in vivid detail the many ways in which, at great risk to their own lives, Jews rescued other Jews during the Holocaust. In so doing he puts to rest the widely held belief that all Jews in Nazi-dominated Europe wore blinders and allowed themselves to be led like “lambs to the slaughter.” Paldiel documents how brave Jewish men and women saved thousands of their fellow Jews through efforts unprecedented in Jewish history.

Encyclopedic in scope and organized by country, Saving One’s Own tells the stories of hundreds of Jewish activists who created rescue networks, escape routes, safe havens, and partisan fighting groups to save beleaguered Jewish men, women, and children from the Nazis. The rescuers’ dramatic stories are often shared in their own words, and Paldiel provides extensive historical background and documentation.

The untold story of these Jewish heroes, who displayed inventiveness and courage in outwitting the enemy—and in saving literally thousands of Jews—is finally revealed.

https://books.google.com/books?id=wZ0nDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover


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The Historians Under Attack for Exploring Poland’s Role in the Holocaust | The New Yorker

Half of the European Jews murdered in the Holocaust were killed in what had been Poland before the war. Gentiles who risked their lives to rescue Jews were an exception.

The Historians Under Attack for Exploring Poland’s Role in the Holocaust

Scholars face defamation suits, and potential criminal charges, in the Polish government’s effort to exonerate the nation of any role in the murders of three million Jews during the Nazi occupation.

By Masha Gessen, March 26, 2021.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-historians-under-attack-for-exploring-polands-role-in-the-holocaust

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Some Poles Collaborated With the Nazis. But Poland’s ‘Ministry of Memory’ Wants People To Forget

Dec 6, 2022
https://time.com/6208257/poland-ministry-of-memory-war-holocaust-history/

The July 10 1941 Jedwabne massacre of Jews by Poles:

Poland says sorry for slaughter of Jews

Villagers refuse to accept responsibility as president says Poles murdered 1,600 in Jedwabne in 1941

Kate Connolly in Berlin, The Guardian, Tue 10 Jul 2001.

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Yes, some Poles were Nazi collaborators. The Polish Parliament is trying to legislate that away.

Analysis by Jeffrey Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg, February 2, 2018 

Consider the weeks after the German invasion of eastern Poland on June 22, 1941. Public authority collapsed in the face of the advancing German army. In many communities, local Poles and other non-Jews beat, robbed, raped and murdered their Jewish neighbors. Our forthcoming book, “Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust,” documents 219 such pogroms in cities and small towns across eastern Poland, nearly 10 percent of the 2,304 localities where Jews and non-Jews dwelled together. Ethnic Poles were the primary perpetrators in approximately 25 percent of the pogroms; in the remaining instances, ethnic Ukrainians predominated....
in many other cases, the violence began before the Germans arrived or after they left...
One Polish eyewitness reported seeing someone grab a Jewish child by the foot and smash the child’s head on the ground. The testimony we’ve assembled reveals that these events had a carnival-like atmosphere to them...
Similar events happened in dozens of other places, as we found in testimonies in multiple archives, especially those located in the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw...
Poland’s Holocaust legislation is trying to outlaw historical facts.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/02/02/yes-some-poles-were-nazi-collaborators-the-polish-parliament-is-trying-to-legislate-that-away

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The Truth About Poland's Role in the Holocaust

A new law endangers an honest reckoning with a complex past.
By Edna Friedberg, February 6, 2018

... In November 1940, an individual who signed his note Ewald Reiman blackmailed a family he believed was Jewish. “Ladies and Gentlemen,” he wrote in a letter, “On the basis of accurate investigation, we have determined the truth about your Semitic origins. In view of the above, we request that you deliver to the bearer of this note the sum of 2,000 zlotys (two thousand zlotys) in a sealed envelope. … In return, we will destroy the incriminating evidence that is in our possession. Otherwise, we will immediately hand over the evidence to the German authorities.” Such blackmailers made life miserable for Jews who had false identification documents enabling them to hide in plain sight and evade German orders to move into ghettos. “[The plague of extortion] developed into a public evil endangering every Jew on the Aryan side,” wrote the Warsaw Jewish historian Emanuel Ringelblum in 1944. “The extortionists stripped their victims of their every last possession and forced them to flee for their lives.”...
Cases of anti-Semitic action were not limited to abetting the German occupation authorities. There are well-documented incidents, particularly in the small towns of eastern Poland, where locals—acutely aware of the Nazis’ presence and emboldened by their anti-Semitic policies—carried out violent riots and murdered their Jewish neighbors. Perhaps the most infamous of these episodes was a massacre in the town of Jedwabne in summer 1941 when several hundred Jews were burned alive by their neighbors. More difficult to unpack is the tangled history of the southeastern village of Gniewczyna Łańcucka. In May 1942, non-Jewish residents of the town held hostage some two to three dozen local Jews. Over the course of several days, they tortured and raped their hostages before finally murdering them. Yet recent interviews with locals reveal that other Christian Poles in Gniewczyna Łańcucka tried to shield Jews. These and countless other episodes muddy the waters between victim and oppressor in the chaotic environment of wartime Poland.
In contrast, the Polish Government in Exile based in London sponsored resistance to the German occupation, including some to help Jews in their native land. Jan Karski, who acted as an emissary between the Polish underground and the government in exile, was one of the first to deliver eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust to Allied leaders like President Franklin Roosevelt in the hope of spurring rescue. On the ground in occupied Poland, the Zegota group (the clandestine Council to Aid Jews) saved several thousand people by supplying false papers and organizing hiding places ...
As inspiring as they are, though, these cases of rescue and resistance represent only a tiny fraction of the Polish population. By the end of the war, 3 million Polish Jews—90 percent of the prewar population—had been murdered by the Germans and their collaborators of various nationalities, one of the highest percentages in Europe.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/02/poland-holocaust-death-camps/552455/

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Kuczynski: The Polish Nazi monster - responsibility for the murder of more than 100,000 Polish Jews:

Major War Criminal Responsible for Murder of 100,000 Police Jews Gets Death Sentence

August 13, 1948

Friedrich Kuczynski, who during the Nazi occupation of Poland was assigned the Job of liquidating the entire Jewish population of Upper Silesia, was sentenced to death in the Sosnowice district court for responsibility for the murder of more than 100,000 Polish Jews...

https://www.jta.org/archive/major-war-criminal-responsible-for-murder-of-100000-police-jews-gets-death-sentence


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The fallout from Poland’s misguided Holocaust law

Sharyn Mittelman, 21 February 2018.

...more than 200,000 Jews were killed, directly or indirectly, by Poles during World War II.

https://www.spectator.com.au/2018/02/the-fallout-from-polands-misguided-holocaust-law/

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After the war:


The Kielce Pogrom: A Blood Libel Massacre of Holocaust Survivors

The term Kielce pogrom refers to a violent massacre of Jews in the southeastern Polish town of Kielce on July 4, 1946.

Aftermath of pogrom in Kielce

A pogrom took place in Kielce, Poland, in July 1946. Forty-two Jews were massacred and about 50 more were wounded. The event touched off a mass migration of hundreds of thousands of Jews from Poland and other countries of eastern and central Europe. This clip shows Jewish refugees, survivors of the pogrom, waiting to leave Poland and crossing into Czechoslovakia

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-kielce-pogrom-a-blood-libel-massacre-of-holocaust-survivors