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

Alliance For Murder: The Nazi-Ukrainian Nationalist Partnership, by B.F. Sabrin (Editor). 1991

1939 Zydokomuna. Impending Nazi Extermination of Slavs

Most of this work rests upon Jewish eyewitness testimonies, not Soviet documents. Contrary to the title, Ukrainian-Nazi collaboration is a secondary issue. The main topic is the fate of the Jews of Tarnopol (Ternopil) and Trembowla (Terebovlia). Some were gassed at Belzec, others were locally shot; a few hid. Excepting those who had been in the USSR, less than 1% of the Jews of those two cities survived the Holocaust. (p. 34, 154).

Nor is this a bash-Ukrainians work, as there is frequent mention of gentile (including Ukrainian) rescuers of Jews. Elaboration is made of a Jew-rescuing Polish-Ukrainian family (p. 110, 119-120), and of various Polish rescuers. (p. 27, 208, 219), including the Polish Underground. (p. 128).

POLOCAUST: NOT ONLY THE JEWS: SLAVS WERE ALSO TO BE EXTERMINATED

Author Sabrin is perceptive in realizing that the “resettlement” provisions of GENERALPLAN OST shouldn’t be taken literally. It called for the eventual extermination of at least 120-140 million Slavs. (pp. 12-13).

INTERNATIONAL JEWRY’S INDIFFERENCE, AND JEWISH-NAZI COLLABORATION. NOT ALL CHOICELESS CHOICES

“World Jewry” is fingered for its silence during the Holocaust (p. 33), and the JUDENRAT are described as institutions whose originally-benevolent members were replaced by entirely self-serving ones. (pp. 26-28). Jewish individuals who showed Germans the hidden bunkers (not at gunpoint, as in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising) are described as scoundrels. (p. 33). They were not exercising choiceless choices in doing so.

JEWISH-SOVIET COLLABORATION AGAINST POLES AND UKRAINIANS

Goldfliess touches on the 1939 Jewish disloyalty to Poland–the Zydokomuna: “When the Soviet army arrived initially, young leftist Jews came out of hiding; those who had left Hashomer Hatzair and those who belonged to the Communist underground movement that had been banned in Poland…They enlisted in the Red Militia and wanted to help the new regime set up an administration in the towns and cities.” (p. 45).

Notice that these Jewish-Soviet collaborators were not limited to card-carrying Communists: They also included members of mainstream Jewish organizations (Hashomer Hatzair). Then again, the Zydokomuna was always much broad-based than membership in the Communist Party itself. For instance, see:

https://www.jewsandpolesdatabase.org/2019/11/04/zydokomuna-are-real-jews-kugelmass/

UKRAINIANS AND THE SHOAH

A quoted 1938 Ukrainian Nationalist newspaper proclaimed a direct correspondence between the OUN, Hitlerism, and fascism (p. 15), while a 1941 one gave direct ideological support to (not merely tactical cooperation with) Hitler. (p. 225). Back in 1932, a Ukrainian newspaper, META, alluded to the genocidal plans of the OUN: “Ukrainian Nationalism must be prepared to employ every means in the struggle…not excluding mass physical extermination, even if millions of human beings, physical entities, are its victims.” (p. 231). The OUN militias killed many Jews and Poles, on their own soon after the 1941 German invasion, and subsequently in collaboration with the Germans. (e. g., pp. 219-222). The OUN-UPA genocide of rural Poles came later. (pp. 138-139).

The presence of Jewish physicians in the UPA has been cited as proof that it wasn’t anti-Semitic. Actually, Jewish doctors were recruited because there was a shortage of doctors, and, with few exceptions, they were all later murdered. (p. 34, 119, 139).