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

Under Strange Skies, by Christina Soltan. 1948. George Allen & Unwin Ltd, London

Siberian Hell: A Taste of the Largely-Forgotten Evils of Communism. Looting of Poles. Delayed Japanese Enmity to Poland

The author of this book was an eyewitness to the 1939 Polish Defensive war and the first several months of German-Soviet occupation. She later travelled to China and Japan.

THE SOVIET INVADERS MASSIVELY PLUNDER THE POLES

The robbery of Jews during the German-made Holocaust, by various Europeans, has gotten a great-deal of one-sided attention. It is part of “property restitution” racket advanced by the Holocaust Industry.  In actuality, plunder was an all-around wartime event that touched almost everybody.

Author Christina Soltan was an eyewitness in Soviet-occupied Wilno (Vilna, Vilnius), as she relates, “When the Soviet troops entered Wilno in September 1939, the authorities of occupation ‘cleaned it up’. This process consisted in arresting every prominent, influential, and well-to-do citizen they could lay hands on. In Wilno, as in all other towns their occupied, they seized everything transportable, and sent it back to their own country: private motor-cars, brass door-handles, knockers, even the linoleum off the floors, and the furniture in public-houses and shops.” (p. 219).

SIBERIAN HELL: NO PLEASANT TRIPS TO SIBERIA!

The Communist arrest and deportation of Poles to Siberia is sometimes trivialized, by Holocaust supremacists, as “just taking a little trip”. It was anything but! The transport of Poles by railroads (actually, cattle cars) to Siberia was brutal, and this was only the very beginning of the hellish ordeal. The transport of Poles to Siberia was comparable to that of the Jews to the Nazi German death camps, but we only hear about the latter. Moreover, Poles were packed on trains for several weeks before arrival, while Jews were packed on trains for only a few hours or days before arrival.

Author Christina Soltan was an eyewitness, in Soviet-occupied Lwow (Lviv) in late 1939, to Poles being jammed into trains for the long journey to slow-death Siberia. Here is how the Poles’ long and often-fatal ordeal began, “None of them was permitted to take more with him than he could carry himself. None of them had been given more than fifteen minutes to pack his things.” (p. 179).

SIBERIAN HELL: THE RAILROAD CATTLE CARS

Soltan continues, “The railway lines at Lwow were packed, not with passenger trains with ordinary carriages, but with goods engines drawing cattle-trucks. They were all tightly closed and sealed. At about the height of the head there was a small, square, barred opening. It was the only source of light. There were no seats, and no toilet; only a hole in the floor. The interior stank and in winter was bitterly cold.” (pp. 178-179).

COMMUNIST IDEOLOGY AND THE TORMENTED POLISH PEOPLE

The author writes, “Such were the conveyances into which men, women, and children were being herded. We could hear them hammering on the walls with despairing, half-stifled cries. And the only crime these people had committed was that they belonged either to our intelligentsia or to our more-or-less well-to-do classes. Men, women, children and little babies; sick and healthy, strong and weak. They were all bundled together. And in this way they began their journey to Siberia, the Arctic, Kazakhstan, and other far-off places, a journey which lasted from six to eight weeks.” (p. 179).

SIBERIAN HELL: POLES AND NOT ONLY JEWS SCREAMED AS THEY WERE DEPORTED

Soltan elaborates on the experiences of the Poles, “These trains remained in the sidings at Lwow for days, until all the victims were gathered together for the journey; not only from the town itself, but also from the surrounding provinces. And all this time the doors of the cattle-cars remained sealed. Some of our people died even before the journey began and their bodies were covered with sacking and taken away. When the trains finally began to move the imprisoned men and women shrieked so madly that their cries were heard far beyond the station precincts. Despairing, contorted, inhuman faces showed in turn in the little barred windows in the trucks. I heard the cries for help with my own ears as I stood the watching crowds in the neighborhood of the station. We saw them go. And we were helpless. We could do nothing.” (p. 179).

SIBERIAN HELL: STARVATION CONDITIONS ON THE LONG JOURNEY TO SIBERIAN EXILE

The hideous farce of the Holocaust supremacists, about a mere “trip” for the Poles, is underscored by the fact that the Poles (men, women, and children) faced starvation conditions even during the long, arduous journey itself. Soltan comments, “At the stations, many, many miles and sometimes days apart, they received a little water in a tin can, and a piece of bread…Many of them died on the way to their destination, but we learnt about that later.” (p. 179).

For more on the horrendous privations faced by Poles, faced even by the survivors that had been released from Soviet captivity, see:

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JAPANESE GOVERNMENT LONG RECOGNIZED THE POLISH GOVERNMENT IN EXILE

Japan was an ally of the Third Reich, yet it is interesting to note that, in spite of this, the Japanese, in a sense, failed for over two years (!) to formally recognize the 1939 German-Soviet conquest of Poland. Soltan, who was in Japan at the time with some other Poles, describes this counter-intuitive turn of events, “On Saturday, October 4^th, 1941, the Japanese Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs handed our Ambassador a document informing him that the Japanese Government felt impelled to break off relations with the Polish Government in London…But it was well known that the Germans, who hated the Poles above all, had for a long time been urging the Japanese authorities to withdraw their recognition from the Polish Embassy, on the ground that an independent Polish State was no longer in existence. And now they had succeeded in their campaign, though the Japanese refused to make any personal arrests among the Poles. They gave the Embassy one month to liquidate its affairs, and even invited the Ambassador and his staff to stay as ‘honored guests’ in the country for as long as they wished.” (p. 359).