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

Unwelcome Memory: Holocaust Monuments in the Soviet Union, by Arkadi Zeltser. 2018. Yad Vashem, Jerusalem

Schudrich Wrong! Jedwabne Bogus Re-Exhumation Prohibition: Jews Themselves Did It Elsewhere!

This book contains eye-opening information. I focus on this.

JEDWABNE BOGUS RE-EXHUMATION PROHIBITION: THE ISSUES. SCHUDRICH WRONG!

According to the standard narrative, Poles were and are forbidden to disturb the remains of the murdered Jews of Jedwabne because it would contravene Jewish religious law. This is a lie. Not only are there rabbinical opinions (e. g., Joseph Polak) affirming the propriety of disinterring Jewish remains but, as elaborated below, Jews themselves disinterred Jewish remains, and moreover did so on a large scale. Jedwabne bogus!

In an article reprinted online, Rabbi Joseph A. Polak said, “…the tradition, by and large, believes that it is not only appropriate but obligatory to reinter someone buried in an inappropriate grave…these considerations clearly apply to the martyrs of Jedwabne…” (p. 24. Emphasis his). “When people are buried enmeshed with each other in mass graves, as they are in Jedwabne, this alone is an urgent reason for their reinterment.” (p. 37). [Polak, J. 2001. Exhuming Their Neighbors…TRADITION 35:4]

SCHUDRICH WRONG! JEWS THEMSELVES WIDELY DISINTERRED THEIR OWN DEAD!

Zeltser discusses the postwar Jewish-conducted exhumation and re-interment of the skeletons of Soviet Jews that had been shot by the Nazi Germans. He comments, “The Jews themselves were highly ambivalent about reinterment. On the one hand, the traditional Jews of the USSR, as throughout Europe, faced halachic issues related to the fact that such reinterment was not permitted anywhere except in ERETZ ISRAEL…On the other hand, many Soviet Jews apparently considered it proper that the victims should rest alongside several generations of their ancestors, next to the ‘KEYVER OVES’ (graves of their fathers). Although a very difficult procedure, reburial of this sort symbolized the victims’ return to the Jewish fold. Moreover, it allows the living to feel that they did everything possible to pay tribute to those who perished, and to minimize the profanation of the gravesites.” (p. 220).

Schudrich wrong! The Jedwabne bogus re-exhumation prohibition is exactly that. According to normative Jewish practice itself, the Jewish religious considerations at most discouraged, but did not forbid, the exhumation of Jewish remains. And, needless to say, the exhumed Jewish remains were not re-buried in ERETZ ISRAEL. The Jews simply disregarded the main halachic issues, and so Poles can too. Notice also the two-facedness: When Poles disinter Jewish remains, as would be at Jedwabne, it is a “profanation of the gravesites”. But when Jews disinter Jewish remains, for whatever reason, then such an act MINIMIZES the profanation of the gravesites. That’s pretty pharisaic. And very convenient!

How else is Jedwabne bogus? See:

https://www.jewsandpolesdatabase.org/2020/03/03/jedwabne-lie-and-coverup-english-language-version-censored-scholar-kurek/

https://www.jewsandpolesdatabase.org/2021/10/10/censored-blockbuster-jedwabne-movie-exposes-the-pole-accusing-jedwabne-lie-and-the-holocaust-industry-behind-it-sumlinski/

JEWS RE-USED “SACRED” GOYISH COMMEMORATIVE MATERIALS

Jews commonly make a big deal of the fact that Poles re-used Jewish gravestones (matsevot) in building and road construction. It worked both ways. Zeltser comments, “Monuments to Holocaust victims…In Ingulets, a marble slab was used that, prior to the Revolution, had been the foundation for a monument to Tsar Alexander II in Krivoi Rog; Jews had found this stele at that city’s funeral bureau and used the old base to create a new monument. It was a common practice in this period to use old prerevolutionary headstones to create a monument and to engrave a new inscription on it.” (pp. 269-270).

POLISH COMMUNISTS MUCH LESS REPRESSIVE OF JEWISH IDENTITY THAN SOVIET COMMUNISTS

Jews endlessly complain about how Poland’s Communist rule repressed Jews as an ethnicity. It was relative. Zeltser comments, “Compared to their Soviet counterparts, it was far more common for monuments established in Poland in the 1940-60s to indicate the victims’ ethnic origin.” (p. 311). Once again, Jewish victimization has been exaggerated.

SOVIET “DO NOT DIVIDE THE DEAD” POLICY OVERSTATED

It turns out that Soviet policies did not pick on the Jews. Fatal Red Army casualties were not distinguished in accordance with their ethnicity (p. 106) any more than were the victims of massacres. Furthermore, Soviet policies discouraged, but did not unilaterally forbid, the special recognition of Jews as victims. The singling-out of Jews as victims was most likely to be tolerated in private Jewish cemeteries. (p. 163). At other times, Jewish symbols with a separatist connotation (the Star of David) were removed, but not symbols of the Menorah. (p. 185).

Soviet policies objected primarily to any Soviet-wide commemoration of Jews as singled-out victims, and were centered on tamping down victim competition between different Soviet peoples. (p. 107). As Zeltser explains, “This was manifest mainly in the Soviet authorities’ unwillingness to take part in memorialization, and in the smaller overall portion of monuments in the USSR that specified that the victims were Jews.” (p. 341).

JEWS GET HOLOCAUST-RELATED ENTITLEMENTS BY MANIPULATION

Zeltser comments, “Moreover, from the standpoint of Jewish memorialization activists, getting the state to take on the preservation of monuments would signify the authorities’ indirect acknowledgment, at least in certain locations, that the Holocaust had been a particular phenomenon of the war, tantamount to other officially recognized phenomena of the war.” (p. 19).

Let us examine this trickery. Jews also use Polish government involvement as a means of increasing the visibility, prestige, and sought-after privileges of the Holocaust in Poland. Each concession is a step towards more demands. No wonder some Poles say, “Poland, Not Polin!”

“TREBLINKA JEWISH GOLD” IN BROADER CONTEXT

Do not single Poland out for opprobrium! With reference to the Jewish murder sites in the Soviet Union, Arkadi Zeltser writes, “The total closure of a burial site in this manner and the practice of putting up fences were dictated largely by the Jews’ desire to cordon off the graves to prevent trespassing by hooligans, including those who regularly dig them up in search of ‘Jewish gold’, and the use of Jewish massacre sites as cattle pastures…Even now, the idea that ‘Jewish gold’ was buried at these sites remains one of the most common myths among the local population.” (p. 255). Maybe the centuries-old connection of Jews with money had something to do with it.