Polish-Jewish Relations: 1,300 Keyword-Phrase-Indexed Book Reviews (by Jan Peczkis)

The Policies Of Genocide: Jews And Soviet Prisoners Of War In Nazi Germany, by Gerhard Hirschfeld. 2014

Counterintuitively-High Survival Rates of Treblinka Escapees in German-Occupied Poland

This book is primarily about the EINSATZGRUPPEN shootings of Jews and Russians in the wake of Operation Barbarossa (the Holocaust by Bullets). However, there is something else that stands out, and is very relevant in accordance with recent events. This includes the renewed Israeli attempt to blame Poland for the German-made Holocaust or–failing that–at least for the [amorphously-defined and Orwellian] “complicity in the Holocaust”.

Of course, to those interested in promoting pro-Jewish, anti-Polish propaganda, facts do not matter: What matters is the advancing of certain agendas (e. g, the Holocaust Industry) at others’ expense. On the other hand, for those readers who DO care about the truth, I offer the following:

DEBUNKING THE “200,000 FUGITIVE JEWS KILLED BY POLES” MYTH

While this book does not discuss Jewish survivorship overall, it provides evidence decisively contradicting the media-repeated narrative of 200,000 Jewish victims of Poles [The falsehood is based on: A conservative 40,000 surviving Polish Jews out of an ASSUMED 250,000 Jews initially fleeing the ghettoes–therefore a survival rate of only 16%]. As described below, the survival rate of the Jewish Treblinka escapees is around 33%, more than twice as the implied 16%!

Note that the 200,000 Jewish-victims-of-Poles canard had originally been peddled by neo-Stalinist authors such as Jan T. Gross, Jan Grabowski, and Barbara Engelking. It has since almost assumed the status of media orthodoxy.

But is the Treblinka area representative? No! But it is in the more DIFFICULT direction. The circumstances affecting fugitive-Jewish survival rates were actually far WORSE than those just about anywhere in German occupied Poland. Yet 33% of the Jewish Treblinka escapees managed to survive the war–all DESPITE the intensive German manhunt in the entire area following the Treblinka revolt, and moreover DESPITE the intense German terror directed against Treblinka-area Polish villagers (intended to terrorize them not only into not helping fugitive Jews, but also into denouncing or killing all those highly-German-propagandized “Jewish bandits”.)

HIGH JEWISH SURVIVORSHIP: AN EXPOSITION OF THE SURVIVAL OF 33% OF TREBLINKA ESCAPEES

Author Falk Pingel, identified (p. ix) as lecturer at the Georg-Eckert-Institut fur international Schulbuchforschung in Brunswick, thus writes about the Treblinka revolt, “At Treblinka, although the majority actually succeeded in leaving the camp, many of the fugitives were shot, the SS having called in reinforcements from the Police and the Army. Nevertheless, out of the 500-600 prisoners who took part in the Treblinka uprising, close on 150 got clean away, and of these 52 are known to have survived the war.” (p. 61).