Holocaust Forgotten or Revisited

My review is based on the English-language edition. The number of people murdered by the Germans at Babyn Yar is in the 70,000—100,000 range (Vitaliy Nakhmanowicz, p. 94), a roughly subequal fraction of them Jews. The victims included Ukrainians, Russians, and Poles. (Vladyslav Hrynevych, p. 115). As far as the Jews were concerned, this was part of what became known as the Holocaust by Bullets, largely conducted by EINSATZGRUPPEN units. >>more...

My review identifies and focuses on deeper issues, related to the Shoah, than the specific Jewish-Nazi negotiations for the release on some Jews. Consider the following:

DOUBLE STANDARD: JEWISH COLLABORATION AND POLISH COLLABORATION

In discussing the beginning of the deportations of the Jews of Slovakia, to their deaths, author and Holocaust scholar Yehuda Bauer comments, “The key role in this was played by Karel Hochberg, a Jewish engineer, who had become Wisliceny’s helper and head of the internal ‘department for special tasks.’ Hochberg was in the mold of Jewish traitors during the Nazi period. In Warsaw there was Abraham Gancwajch, head of the Gestapo-supported police, who tried to snatch the leadership of the ghetto from the head of the Judenrat, Adam Czerniakow, and who believed in the final Nazi victory; in Krakow there was the head of the Jewish special police, Szpiro, a Hasidic Jew who became a Gestapo agent—and there were others, not surprisingly, under the impossible pressure of the Nazi murderers.” (p. 70). >>more...

This work is densely packed with interesting information. One learns, for example, the fact that the Germans (Nazis) stole 600,000 paintings and sculptures, representing about 20% of all art in Europe. 100,000 pieces remain missing. (p. 276). This book reviews the Nuremberg Trials, and then elaborates on many little-known court cases. I mention a few salient ones. >>more...

Na marginesie „Dalej jest noc”.Trudno jest pisac recenzję  o pracy dosc pionierskiej , jak tez przedstwiającej  niedokonczone studium mikrospołeczne okreslonych terenów , czy ich swiadomym ominięciu.  To Dwutomowe wydawnictwo będące podsumowaniem kilkuletniego projektu badawczego realizowanego przez Centrum Badań nad Zagładą Żydów IFiS PAN  wykonanego na zamowienie zgodnie z wolą darczyncy. Wprawdzie tytuł jest dosc nieadekwatny gdy mowi o strategii, gdzie w rzeczywistosci  strategią było tylko przetrwanie co jest juz tylko taktyką:"Strategie przetrwania Żydów podczas okupacji w Generalnym Gubernatorstwie, 1942-1945. Studium wybranych powiatów" >>more...

This book presents a great deal of arcane information related to the Shoah. Much of it is directly-relevant to issues in modern Polish-Jewish relations, and that is the focus of my review.

FANTASTIC POGROM ACCOUNTS

It is common for Jewish authors to inflate, often by many multiples, the number of Jews killed in pogroms. This work does also. It cites some Hebrew or Yiddish sources that claim an amazing 650,000 Jews murdered by the hordes of the Ukrainian Khmelnitsky (Chmielnicki) in 1648-1649. (Ref. 18 on p. xix). (The actual toll was 10,000-15,000). >>more...

Katyn is a symbol of the criminal policy of the Soviet system against the Polish nation. The present study aims to demonstrate the basic facts of Katyn massacre – the execution of almost 22,000 people: Polish prisoners of war in Katyn, Kharkov, Kalinin (Tver) and also other Polish prisoners (soldiers and civilians), which took place in the spring of 1940 in different places of the Soviet Ukraine and Belarus republics based on the decision of the Soviet authorities, that is the Political Bureau of All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of March 5, 1940. This article refers not only to the massacre itself, but also its origin, historical processes and the lies accompanying Katyn massacre. Keywords Katyn massacre, Soviet policy, All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). >>more...

Although this book was originally written many years ago, it is very timely in the light of recent events (Spring 2018). Poland had passed a law criminalizing the declarations of Nazi German death camps as “Polish”, and criminalized the declarations of the Polish NATION as “complicit in the Holocaust.” Note that this new law does not outlaw any research on INDIVIDUAL POLES collaborating with the Nazis, which is very different from the totally-mendacious accusations of the Polish NATION complicit in the Holocaust. Despite endless corrections, the media continues to misrepresent the new Polish law with all kinds of scare tactics, acting as though it was siding with the most strident Jewish accusers of Poland. >>more...

This book compares the Holocaust memorialization at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, the Jewish Museum Berlin, and the USHMM (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) in Washington, D. C. It is so thoroughly Judeocentric that it does not even have the obligatory mention of the 5 million [actually many more] “other victims of the Nazis.” >>more...

This book raises diverse topics, and I focus exclusively on so-called Holocaust restitution

Author Michael J. Bazyler is professor of law, and is involved in Holocaust litigation. The following, except for the titles in CAPS, and explanatory comments [in brackets], are direct quotes from Bazyler:

THE UNITED STATES JUDICIAL SYSTEM IS CRUCIAL FOR HOLOCAUST-INDUSTRY SUCCESS

What is exceptional is that much of the effort made for Holocaust restitution did not begin until the 1990s, more than half a century after the end of World War II. Adding to this exceptionality is that the arena where the modern campaign over restitution took place was not Europe, where the Holocaust took place, but the United States. More specifically, ground zero for Holocaust restitution was the US courthouse. (p. 235). >>more...

My review is limited to the following direct quotes from noted film critic and writer Phillip Lopate [ORGANIZED BY SUBTOPICS]:

[THE INSTRUMENTALIZATION OF THE HOLOCAUST]:

In its life as a rhetorical figure, the Holocaust is a bully. (p. 288). >>more...