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Polish-Jewish Relations During the Second World War, by Emmanuel Ringelblum, Joseph Kermish (Editor), Yad Vashem (Editor), Shmuel Krakowski (Editor), Dafna Allon (Translation), Danuta Dabrowska (Translation), Dana Keren (Translation). 1992

Ringelblum Misused by Grabowski. Jew Killing By Poles: Has Voodoo Numbers That Have Since Been Exploited By Those Who Attack Poland Today

The main author, Jewish historian Emmanuel Ringelblum, had been a member Poalei Zion Left–which was somewhere between Communist-lite and Communist. One of the editors, Shmuel Krakowski, was a long-term Jewish Communist in Soviet-ruled Poland. For these reasons, the reader should be cautious in trusting the information presented in this book, especially when it touches on Polish conduct during the Holocaust.

The following [except for the titles in CAPS] are direct quotations:

JEWISH-NAZI COLLABORATION: THE JUDENRAT AND THE JEWISH GHETTO POLICE IN THE SHIPMENT OF JEWS TO THE DEATH CAMPS

The uniformed police has had a deplorable role in the “resettlement actions”. The blood of hundreds of thousands of Polish Jews, caught and driven to the “death vans” will be on their heads. The Germans’ tactics were usually as follows: in the first “resettlement action” they utilized the Jewish Order Service, which behaved no better from the ethical point of view than their Polish opposite numbers. In the subsequent “actions,” when the Jewish Order Service was liquidated as well, the Polish Police force was utilized. It was like that in Biala Podlaska, for example, where the Polish Police conducted the extermination “action” against the Jews in October 1942. I heard from an eyewitness of this “action” that the local fire-brigade, jointly with the uniformed police, discovered sixty Jews in the house where my woman informant was staying, herself among them. [p. 135].

THE POLICJA GRANATOWA AND THE SEARCH FOR FUGITIVE JEWS

As I have mentioned elsewhere, punishment for hiding Jews and rewards for giving them away also helped. It is difficult to estimate the number of Jews in this country who fell victim thanks to the Blue Police; it must certainly amount to tens of thousands of those who had managed to escape the German slaughterers. [p. 136]

—End of Direct Quotes—

ANALYSIS OF THE FAKE NEWS ABOUT MASSIVE POLISH JEW-KILLING

To begin with, note that when eyewitness Ringelblum mentions the onerous role of the “uniformed police” and the “hundreds of thousands” of Jewish victims it claimed, he is talking about the Jewish Ghetto police, not the Polish police! The German-conscripted Polish police came only later, and was decidedly secondary in its role.

And then non-eyewitness Emmanuel Ringelblum makes assertions that go far beyond his hiding place. He presents not a shred of evidence to back up “the tens of thousands” of fugitive Jews that purportedly fell victim to the Polish Blue police. He does not even bother to inform us how he came up with them as guesstimates! The reader can see that Ringelblum’s “tens of thousands” are phony, made-up numbers. They are fake news at its best. Note also that Ringelblum was in hiding, so he couldn’t possibly have seen more than a minute fraction of the hearsay that he evidently repeats as fact.

Jan Grabowski, in his JUDENJAGD (HUNT FOR THE JEWS) and other publications, has uncritically quoted Ringelblum’s fantastic expansive as gospel truth. Not done yet, he then embellished them into a fantastic 200,000 fugitive Jews purportedly killed by Poles.

The media has endlessly quoted the 200,000 figure as fact. Then again, if it makes for a better Jewish-victimization, Pole-blackening story, why not?