Poles in WW2

For the next few years, before and during the war, Poland had the ability to decrypt intercepted coded German messages. As Enigma evolved into a more complex and sophisticated machine, so too did the Polish methods and techniques. Just before the beginning of WW2 the Poles transferred all their know-how and equipment to the French and British Allies for their use in the coming war. When war started on September 1st, 1939, the Polish cryptologists were quickly evacuated through Romania to France. By October 1939 the reorganised cryptology unit started to decrypt Enigma messages again. Until the fall of France on June 17th, 1940 the Polish unit operated officially in France. After that they went underground in "Vichy" France, where they operated until November 1942 when the Germans occupied southern France. Their escape to neutral, but friendly with Germany, Spain was a disaster as they were apprehended and imprisoned in cruel interment camps. Two key cryptologists and three radio operators managed to escape and reach England but most fared much worse. Two senior intelligence officers and three engineers were caught by the Gestapo and were sent to German concentration camps. The two officers were liberated by the US Army but the three engineers perished.

The British, using the Polish decrypting methods amongst others, established a secret organisation of about 10,000 people at Bletchley Park to intercept, decrypt and disseminate German Enigma messages and intelligence. Selected Allied high-ranking commanders received these decrypted German, rephrased for extra security and protected by the explicit Ultra regulations, starting with the Battle of Britain, through the Battle of the Atlantic, the landing in Africa, the invasion of the Continent and the bombing of the V1 and V2 weapon sites.

 

really did I wrote that?
???
I guess I did not !!!

so why you ????

 

Polands resistance network must have an awesome book keeping and records department to have such accurate numbers on everything they did... amazing...

But my favourite is the last one... 'Planned assainations'... not carried out but planned...

 

Yes, you bloody did:

And it's absurd.

OK. The Polish resistance movement was not the largest, nor the most effective partisan force of WWII. It was the most anti-semite, though.

NOV i POJ (Narodnooslobodila?ka vojska i partizanski odredi Jugoslavije, People's Liberation Army and Partisan detachments of Yugoslavia) was much larger:

Men and women serving in the NOV i POJ

1941: 80.000
1942: 150.000
mid-1943: 230.000
late-1943: 320.000
late-1944: 650.000

And was involved in far larger, more brutal and more influential operations:

Fatal casualties taken by the NOV i POJ (1941-1945): 305.672.

Fatal casualties taken by the German Armed Forced in anti-partisan warfare against NOV i POJ (1941-1945): 103.196.

Total fatal casualties suffered by all sides in the Balcan campaigns: 1.500.000.

Again, to fight Tito the Germans recquired an entire Army Group, almost 20 full-strenght and full-equipped divisions, some even being élite mountain divisions.

The NOV i POJ was also responsible for the liberation of Belgrade and many other cities, not to mention that its very presence tied up to the Balcans some 500.000 Axis troops at the very same time of the Allied invasion of Italy.

From: www.en.wikipedia.org and www.vojska.net/ww2/yugoslavia/

I don't think this cipher is accurate… The Warsaw Uprising didn't kill more then 20.000 Germans, and it was the fiercest battle…

 

I guess I hit the right direction because you starting to make this forum loosing quality level

Registry of over 700 Polish citizens killed while helping Jews During the Holocaust:

1. ABRAMEK, W³adys³aw, 20, living in Wola Przybys³awska, near Garbów, Lublin prov.

killed by Germans on Dec. 10, 1942, while staying at his cousin, Józef Aftyka, who sheltered Jews. (see 3-6)
2. ADAMCZYK, Stanis³aw, living in £±cko, Nowy S±cz prov.
in Spring of 1943; he was beaten to death by W³adys³aw Gleb, the German town mayor of Mszana Dolna, for sheltering a Jew.
3. AFTYKA, Józef, 54, living in Wola Przybys³awska, near Garbów, Lublin prov.
4. AFTYKA, Aniela, 52, Józef's wife

5. AFTYKA, Marianna, 14, daughter

6. AFTYKA, Zofia, 17, daughter

murdered by Germans on Dec. 10, 1942 together with a group of Jews sheltered by them and with W³adys³aw Abramek. On the same day Czes³aw and Leonard Gawron from the same village were also killed together with Aniela and Stanis³aw Kamiñski, 5 members of the Nalewjka family and 5 others of the Ochmiñski family - a total of 19 people (see: 1, 137-138, 209- 210, 390-391, 411)
7. AMBRO¯Y, Marianna, 75, living in Podborek, Radom prov.
died on July 11, 1943, together with the Kowalczyk family, shot on the charge of helping Jews (see: 264-266)
8. ANICET (i.e. priest Wojciech KAPLIÑSKI) 66, chaplain of the monastery in Miodowa Str. in Warsaw
arrested on Oct. 16, 1941 for aiding Jews; died the same year at Auschwitz
9. ARASZKIEWICZ, Aleksandra, living in Cisie, near Ceg³ów, Siedlce prov.
A sizable group of Jews from Ceg³ów took refuge in the village of Cisie,
(incl. Esther, Yoyne Mendel and the baby Jab³onka Goldstein) as well as Jews who escaped from the "death trains" to Treblinka via aCeg³ów. On June 28, 1943 raids were carried out on the village by the military police

from Miñsk Mazowiecki, during which 25 Poles, incl. railwaymen, were snatched from their homes, together with numerous Jews they sheltered and

murdered: Marcin D¹browski, Franciszek Fiutkowski, Aleksander G¹sior,

Henryk Gergera, Rozalia Jaworska with her 2 years old daughter, Tadeusz

Lipiñski, Zygmunt Ma³us, Stanis³aw Pe¿yk, Tomasz and Sylweriusz P³atek,

Edward R¿ysko, W³adys³aw Saski, Eugeniusz Skwieciñski, Marian and Piotr Smater, Jan Szczêsny, Józefa Szyperska, Aleksandra W¹sowska, Jan and ,

Mieczys³aw W¹sowski, W³adys³aw Wójcicki, Jan Zagañczyk and Ludwik Zaj¹c. Wies³aw Walczewski was arrested the same day, but shot in January 1944. The VILLAGE WAS BURNT DOWN. (see: 92, 124, 141-142, 186- 187, 332, 361. 456, 470-471, 536, 539, 560, 564-565, 597, 604, 630, 635-637, 677, 693, 696)

10. ARCHUTOWSKI, Roman, priest, rector of the Archidiocesan Seminary in Warsaw
sent to Majdanek for aiding Jews; died after torture in Oct. 1943

11. ARCISZEWSKI, Albin, 45, living at Orlicz, near Garbów, Lublin prov.

executed in September 1943 for helping Jews from the camp at Antopol; he tried to save Dr. Czerniak, his wife and 2 daughters, Isaac Elfenstein, Lena Mazurska and Itka Wo³yniec
12. AUGUSTYN, Józef. living in Szerzyny, Tarnów prov.
13. AUGUSTYN, Józefa, his wife

they sheltered 3 Jews form Szerzyny, the family of Elias and Hersh Haskel, shot together with them on Feb. 4, 1944 by German military police
14. AUGUSTYNIAK, Franciszek, 30, worker, living at Paulinów, near Soko³ów Podlaski, Siedlce prov.
shot by an SS unit on Feb. 24, 1943, together with a group of 14 people, victims of a provocation: several weeks earlier they rendered help to a Nazi agent, who pretended to be a Jewish fugitive. Died also Zygmunt Dryga, Franciszek Kirylski, Józef, Ewa and Stanis³aw Kotowski, Stanis³aw Piwko, Jan Oliwiñski, Aleksandra Wiktorzak (see: 111, 216, 259-261, 469, 609, 648) Stanis³aw Kusiak and Stanis³aw Mazurek died in the Treblinka camp (see 314, 374) Died also Czes³aw Borowy, Jan Brzozowski and Stanis³aw Henduszko (see: 43, 57, 166)
15. BACZEWSKA, Honorata, 30, teacher living in Lublin

underground liason officer and AK (Home Army) press carrier, murdered for sheltering Jews early in 1945 by Ukrainian nationalists.
16. BANASZEK, Marianna, 50, living in Pustelnik, near Marki, Warsaw prov.
17. BANASZEK Stanis³awa, daughter

18. BANASZEK, W³adys³aw, son

murdered in October 1943 for hiding a Jewish family of 3. This Jewish family, informed of the threat of a raid on the house, luckily escaped.
19. BARAN, Adam, 29, living in Hucisko, near G³ogów Ma³opolski, Rzeszów prov.
20. BARAN Szczepan, 36

On June 10, 1943 the German military police from Rzeszów surrounded the village of Hucisko and murdered 21 inhabitants of it and of the neighbouring village of Przewrotne, for sheltering Jews. Died also: Franciszek Beskur, Jadwiga Chezalik, Franciszek Dr¹g, Anna Dworak and 7 members of her family:Anna, Jan, Katarzyna, Maria, Micha³, Stefania and Zofia; Adam, Józef and Marcin Gut, Marcin Kolano, Jakub and Józef Rumak, Józef S³uja and Adam Susich. The Germans burnt down 17 homes and numerous service buildings (see: 31, 61, 110, 113-120, 161-163, 222, 521-522, 563, 589)
Similar measures were carried out twice in the village of Przewrotne (see: 49-51, 70-71)

21. BARAN, Rozalia, living in Modrych, near Hrubieszów, Zamooæ prov.
In December 1942 beaten up and then murderd for giving her own "Kennkarte" to a Jewess, who using it went to work in Germany, was recognized and captured
22. BARANEK, Wincenty, 46, farmer, from Siedliska, near Miechów, Kielce prov.
23 . BARANEK, £ucja, 35, his wife

24. BARANEK, Henryk, 12, son

25. BARANEK, Tadeusz, 10, son

26. BARANEK, Katarzyna, mother of Wincenty

murdered by military police on March 15, 1941 together with Katarzyna Kopeæ, mother of £ucja and the Jews they were sheltering: Piñczowski, Skowron, Sybirski and Weitzman (see: 228)
27. BARGLIK, Maria, 51, farmer, living in Tokarnia, Cracow prov.
killed on March 6, 1944, following sentence passed by a special court (Sondergericht) at Szaflary for sheltering the 6 members family of Samuel Steinberg

28. BARGLIK, Stefan, living in Tokarnia, Cracow prov.

shot on the strength of the special court verdict of the SS and police commander (Standgericht) in Cracow for "fostering Jews and sheltering them"; the execution of the verdict was pronounced on Feb. 21, 1944
29. BARSZCZ, Marianna, 16, living in Moszeñki, near Jastków, Lublin prov.
employed by farmers Marian and Zofia Wysmulski, who concealed in an underground shelter 4 Jews, while providing also others with food and medicines. On Sept. 25, 1943, Germans shot also Zofia Wysmulska and the Jews they protected (see: 689)
30. BERSKI, Jerzy, living in Warsaw
killed in combat against Germans in April 1943, during the offensive near the Warsaw ghetto walls, organized by the GL (People's Guard)
31. BESKUR, Franciszek, 35, from Przewrotne, near G³ogów, Rzeszów prov.
shot on June 10, 1943 in the village of Hucisko, in a mass execution for sheltering Jews (see: 19-20)
32. BIELNIAK, Franciszek, 32, shoemaker, from G³êbokie, near Biecz, Krosno pr.
shot by Gestapo on Jan. 14 1943 for rendering help to Jews
33. BIEÑKOWSKI, Gerwazy, from Kietlin, near Radomsko, Piotrków prov.
executed in November 1943 with W³adys³aw and Franciszka Librowski for his part in sheltering 2 Jews: Chêciñski and Bugajski (see: 329-330)
34. BOBELOWA, (Christian name unknown) from £uck (now in Soviet Ukraine)
35. BOBELOWA's mother

murdered by Germans in Fall 1943 for hiding a Jewish owner of a local brewery, Sznajder Bobel, who having been warned, managed to escape
36. BOBROWSKI, Jan, 50, farmer, from Lipiny, near Pilzno, Tarnów prov.
killed in March 1943 for sheltering Jews; his farmstead was burnt down
37. BOGDANOWICZ, Anna, living in Jas³o, Krosno prov.
arrested at the end of November 1942 for sheltering Sarah Diller, who survived. Tortured, she perished soon after in Auschwitz. Posthumously awarded by Yad Vashem the medal as "Righteous Among Nations"
38. BOGUCKA, (Christian name unknown) from Pastewnik, near Borszczów (locality incorporated after the war into the Soviet Ukraine)
widow of the local butcher, Karol Bogucki; arested in June 1943, killed in Czortków for sheltering 11 Jews. She left behind her 3 orphan children.
39. BOREK, Stanis³aw, farmer, living in Sadkowice near Lipsko, Radom prov.
40. BOREK, Helena, his wife

41. BOREK, Czes³aw, son

42. BOREK, Piotr
shot on Jan. 8, 1943 for help to Jews. Together with them perished their daughter, Honorata, with her husband Ryszard Wójtowicz (see: 684-685)

43. BOROWY, Czes³aw, worker, from Paulinów, near Soko³ów Podlaski, Siedlce prov
shot on Feb. 24, 1943 as one of the 14 persons victims of a provocation some weeks earlier they gave help to a Nazi agent, pretending to be a Jew (see 14)
44. BORYCKI, Stanis³aw, 44, farmer, from Boisko, near Lipsko, Radom prov.

45. BORYCKA, Zofia, 38, his wife

46. BORYCKI, Zbigniew, son

shot on Jan 2, 1943, for helping Jews. Their homstead was burnt down.
With them were killed 3 persons of the Krawczyk family (see: 279-281)

47. BRAJA, W³adys³aw, living at Równe, near Dukla, Krosno prov.
executed in August or September 1943 for harbouring 3 Jewish people
48. BRONIS£AWSKI, Edward, living in Warsaw
shot on Apr. 21, 1943, when as a liason officer of the GL (People's Guard) he tried to supply guns to the Jewish ghetto. His wife Wiktoria and his son Zbigniew were arrested. Their fate is unknown
49. BRUDZ, Antoni, 24, from Przewrotne, near G³ogów. Rzeszów prov.
50. BUDZ, Wojciech, 34

51. BRUDZ, Walenty, 57

On Mar. 13, 1943 German police, under Gestapo supervision, killed around 30 people in the village of Przewrotne for sheltering Jews. Along them were killed: Andrzej, Franciszek and Wojciech Dr¹g; Micha³ Gawe³; Adam Organiociak and 6 members of his family: Andrzej, Aniela, Franciszek, Józef (born in 1906) Józef (born in 1912) and Wojciech; £ukasz and Wojciech Pomyka³a, Antoni Rusin, Jan Walc, Franciszek Wanoska, Franciszek and Józef Wilk. (see: 108-110, 136, 427-433, 476-477, 525, 629, 633, 650-652. Other names are unknown. A second execution at Przewrotne took place on May 9, 1943 (see: 70-71) as well as in the nearby village of Hucisko on June 10, 1943. (see: 19-20)
52. BRÜHL, Hanna, living at Milanówek, Warsaw prov.
shot on May 17, 1943, by military police from Grodzisk Mazowiecki in the "Anielin" villa of Milanówek, together with 4 Jews she concealed
53. BRUST, Jan, living at Raków, near Czêstochowa
shot in the first half of 1944 at the Hasag-Eisenhütte A. G. camp, for distributing food and money and passing correspondence to Jewish inmates, as part of the campaign carried by the Relief Council for Jews
54. BRYNKUS, Cyryl, 44, from Spytkowice, near Auschwitz, Cracow prov.
arrested on Nov. 15, 1943 for help to Jewish population; jailed in Zakopane, transfered to P³aszów camp and then to Montelupich prison in Cracow. Shot there on May 28, 1944
55. BRYO, Johan, railwayman, living in Sosnowiec, Katowice prov.
he helped fugitives form the Sosnowiec ghetto, and transported some of them to Hungary. Arrested in 1944 by Gestapo, sent to Auschwitz, died there. Posthumously awarded the medal "Righteous Among Nations"
56. BRZOZOWSKA, Zofia, living at Koby³ka, Warsaw prov.
shot on Sep. 1, 1943 by Gestapo, together with 2 Jewish men, sheltered on her estate; one of them was Goldberg, owner of the tannery in Wo³omin.
57. BRZOZOWSKI, Jan, 16, from Paulinów, near Soko³ów Podlaski, Siedlce prov.
shot on Feb. 24, 1943, as one of the 14 persons, victims of a Nazi agent provocateur (see 14)
58. BUSZKO, Henryk, 30, farmer, living at Liza Stara, near Bia³ystok
murdered on Sep. 21, 1943, by gendarmes from Pietkowo, for helping Jews, hiding after their escape from the train to Treblinka
59. BUZOWICZ, Wincenty, living in Radom
60. BUZOWICZ, Anna, his wife

on Apr. 3, 1943, sentenced to death by a special court in Radom for helping the Jewish women Sala Rubinowicz and Else Schwarzman. Also sentenced to death for that case were: Wiktoria Paduch, Jan Pinkus, Zenon Poloñski and Maria Ró¿añska. (see: 442, 466, 475, 517)
61. CHEZALIK, Jadwiga, 41, farmer, from Hucisko, near G³ogów, Rzeszów prov.

killed on June 10, 1943 in a mass execution for sheltering Jews in which 21 villagers died (see: 19-20)
62. CHÊÆ, Franciszek, 17, living at Tomaszewice, near Jastków, Lublin prov.
foster-child of Leonard Pietrak, killed together with him and his family for harbouring 2 Jewish men, on Feb. 28, 1944 (see: 461-463)
63. CHOLEWIÑSKI, Marcin, 30, living at Grzyma³ków, near Kielce
shot on Oct. 19, 1942, for supplying food to the Radoszyce ghetto
64. CHOREW, W³odzimierz, from Bereza Kartuska (now in the Soviet Ukraine)
65. CHOREW, his mother (name unknown)

66. CHOREW, his father (name unknown)

executed in fall 1943 together with the Jewish woman, Leycha Kap³an, they harboured
67. CHOWANIAK, Karol, farmer, from Zawoja, near Maków Podhalañski, Bielsko prov.
68. CHOWANIAK, Tekla, his wife

Karol was arrested in May 1943, together with the 4 sheltered Jews, family Kuczko among them, who were shot on the spot. Karol underwent several weeks of investigation in the Gestapo prison "Palace" at Zakopane, and was sent to Auschwitz. Tekla was arrested with her foster-child, Karolina Marek, and was sent directly to Auschwitz. All three died there (see 368)
69. CHRACA, Karol, 46, living at Wróblówka, Nowy S¹cz prov.
executed by the Gestapo on May 20, 1942, at Czarny Dunajec, together with Józef Lehrer and his daughter, for supplying food to them and other Jewish people in hiding
70. CHUBRO, Marcin, 37, from Przewrotne, near G³ogów, Ma³opolski, Rzeszów prov.
71. CHUBRO, Micha³, 53

On May 9, 1943, following Gestapo orders, the military police from Rzeszów, surrounded the village of Przewrotne and murdered 16 Poles for harbouring Jews. Others who died also were: Andrzej Gola, Antoni Granat, Ludwik Gut, Józef Kuo. Pawe³ Laska, Jan Marsza³, Józef Tyburski (see: 148. 152. 164, 317, 323. 371, 618) The names of other 7 victims have not bee established. Similar executions took place in Przewrotne on Mar. 13, 1943
(see: 49-51) as in the nearby Hucisko on June 10, 1943 (see: 19-20)

72. CHYBOWSKI, Franciszek, 60, from Rzêdowice, near Ksi¹¿ Wielki, Kielce pr.
73. CHYBOWSKA, Julia, 54, his wife

shot on Mar. 5, 1943, for sheltering Jews
74. CIESIELSKI, Józef, 19, farmer, from Boisko near Lipsko, Radom prov.
shot on Nov. 7, 1943, one of three, rendering help to Jews (see 283, 582)
75. CIEOLAK, Wojciech, living at £êka Szczuciñska, Tarnów prov.
shot on Mar 21, 1943, for sheltering in his house a Jewess from Pacanów

76. CIO£KOSZ, Feliks, 58, from Markuszowa, near Wioniowa, Rzeszów prov.

77. CIO£KOSZ, (Christian name unknown), 50, his wife

78. CIO£KOSZ, Jan, 26, their son

shot in June 1943 by military police from Wioniowa, for helping Jews who took refuge in nearby woods (see 426)
79. CYPARSKA, Stefania Janina, 25, from Wydrna, Krosno prov.
80. CYPARSKI, Alfred Fryderyk, 6, son

81. CYPARSKA, Stanis³awa, 3, daughter

82. CYPARSKI, Tadeusz, 6 months, son

murdered in March 1944 for help to Jews, rendered by Stefania
83. CYPARSKI, Wojciech, 30 living at Krzemienna, Krosno prov.
shot in early March 1944 by Gestapo for helping Jews and Soviet POW
84. CZAPLA, Stanis³aw, 30. farmer, living in Owiesielice, Radom prov.
murdered on Dec. 7, 1942, by gendarmes from Ciepielów, for help to Jews. Toghether with him died: Bronis³aw Dobroñ, Stanis³aw Nowotnik, Marianna Skwira, Wojciech Skrzak and members of Wdowiak and of Wojewódka families (see: 102, 403, 557, 561, 638-640, 660-665)
85. CZERSKA, Janina Wanda, 56, living in Warsaw
sheltered 7 Jews in her house in Milanówek: Jadwiga Miñska, whose husband had been killed in Katyñ, and 6 others, known only by their assumed names: the couple Cholewiñski and their 2 sons and the couple Kordoñski. In fall of 1943 five of them were arrested and their fate is unknown. Janina Wanda arrested with them, was transferred from the Pawiak prison to Auschwitz, where she died on Feb. 20, 1944
86. CZERWONKA, Franciszek, 56, farmer, from Paw³osiów, near Jaros³aw. Rzeszów prov.
87. CZERWONKA, Julia, 55, his wife

88. CZERWONKA, Stanis³aw, 18, son

shot on July 1943, by Gestapo for sheltering Jews.
89. D¥BOWSKI, Krzysztof, 44, farmer, from D³ugo³êka, near Knyszyn, Bia³ystok

murdered on May 5, 1945, in connection with the sheltering of 7 Jews from Knyszyn since September 1942. They were: Ber S³odki with his wife Fruma, their daughter Szosza and son-in-law Abram Krawiec, rabbi; Gerson Krawiec, his wife Lenta and their son, Szmuel. All of them left Poland after the war. D¹bowski was killed by bandits who demanded large sums of money from him, which, they thought, he must have earned for sheltering Jews. Posthumously awarded the medal "Righteous Among Nations"
90. D¥BROWSKA, Maria, headmistress of the school in W³odzimierz Wo³yñski
(town incorporated after the war into the Ukraine)
Though known before the war for her antisemitic views, she began sheltering Jews in her home, following the German occupation in 1941.

18 people were found in her villa in April 1944, including a paralysed old woman, an invalid without a leg and a blind girl. Tortured by Gestapo, she did not reveal the identity of those who had been helping her, and she was

shot with the people she had been sheltering.

91. DABROWSKI, Boles³aw, farmer, from Samoklêski, Near Kamionka, Lublin pr
having sheltered more than 12 Jews in his home and on his farm, he was shot together with the Jews during a raid organized by the German military police on the village, on Jan. 31, 1943
92. D¥BROWSKI, Marcin, from Cisie, near Ceg³ów. Siedlce prov.
killed by the military police, together with 24 other Poles from the village of
Cisie, for sheltering Jews (see 9)
93. DEC, Bronis³aw, from Hadle Szklarskie, near Kañczuga, Przemyol prov.

94. DEC, Stanis³aw, brother

95. DEC, Tadeusz, brother

96. DEC, W³adys³aw, brother, living at Panta³owice, near Kañczuga

The Dec brothers, together with other inhabitants of Panta³owice and
Hadle Szklarskie, helped and provided food to Jews who were hiding in the surrounding woods. One of the latter, Malka Szinfeld, who was captured by the Nazis, unable to withstand the investigation to which they subjected her, gave away the names of the Poles who were helping them. On Dec. 4, l942 were detained and executed beside the Dec brothers: Zofia Kubicka, Zofia and Jakub Kuszek, Emilia and Wincenty Lewandowski (see: 293, 315-316, 327-328)

97. DENEKO, Jadwiga (born SA£EK) 32, living in Warsaw
took care of many fugitives from the Warsaw ghetto, thus cooperating with Ludomir Marczak. Arrested on Nov. 25, 1943, togehter with the sheltered Jewish family, shot on Jan. 6, 1944 in the ghetto ruins. Posthumously awarded the medal "Righteous Among the Nations (see: 367)
98. DÊBEK, Wiktoria, 40, living at Czernie, near Garwolin, Siedlce prov.
murdered by Gestapo on June 29, 1942, together with 11 Jews of unknown identity, sheltered on her property
99. DÊBSKA, Emilia, living in Ko³omyja (incorporated into the Soviet Ukraine)
100. DÊBSKA's housekeeper (identity unknown)

sheltered 11 people of Jewish origin, including the family of the dentist Gottfryd and the 3 members of the family Karpel. These last managed to escape, but all others were shot
101. D£UGOOPOLSKI, W³adys³aw, 35, from Spytkowice, near Oowiêcim, Cracow
arrested on Jan. 14, 1943 for help rendered to Jews, jailed at Zakopane, later transferred to the P³aszów camp and then to the Montelupich prison in Cracow, shot there on May 28, 1944
102. DOBROÑ, Bronis³aw, 28, farmer, living at Owiesielice, Radom prov.
murdered on Dec. 7, 1942, in a group of 14 Poles by gendarmes from Ciepielów, for help rendered to Jews (see: 84)
103. DOMAGA£A, Piotr, living at Dobra, near Pilica, Katowice prov.
shot by the military police in autumn 1942, together with the sheltered Jews, incl. the mother Kajla born Janic. His wife managed to escape
104. DOMAÑSKI, Piotr, 76, farmer, from Rz¹¿ew, near Zbuczyn, Siedlce prov.
105. DOMAÑSKI, Franciszek, 37, farmer, son

106. DOMAÑSKI, Antoni, 32, farmer, son

shot by military police on Apr. 8, 1943 for sheltering Jews and partisans
107. DOMERADZKI, Jan, from Trêbaczew, near Sadkowice, Skierniewice prov.
shot on Dec. 11, 1943 with his neighbours, the Szczepaniak family, for help to a Jewish family; the father of this family was also shot, but the fate of the remaining family members is unknown (see: 594-596)
108. DR¥G, Andrzej, 48, from Przewrotne, near G³ogów Ma³opolski, Rzeszów pr.
109. DR¥G, Wojciech, 42

shot on Mar. 13 in the village of Przewrotne in a group execution for Jews sheltering (see: 49-51)
110. DR¥G, Franciszek, 31, from Przewrotne, near G³ogów Ma³opolski
shot on June 10, 1943 in the village of Hucisko (see: 19-20)
111. DRYGA, Zygmunt, 54, from Paulinów, near Soko³ów Podlaski, Siedlce prov.
shot at Paulinów by an SS unit on Feb. 24, 1943, together with a group of people, victimsof a Nazi agent provocateur (see: 14)
112. DUDKIEWICZ, Aleksander, living at Gniazdowo, near £ochów. Siedlce prov.
killed in autumn at Gniazdowo with a Jewish fugitive, Frydman
113. DWORAK, Katarzyna, 60, from Hucisko, near G³ogów Ma³opolski, Rzeszów
114. DWORAK, Maria, 56

115. DWORAK, Micha³, 57

116. DWORAK, Anna, 30

117. DWORAK, Jan, 29

118. DWORAK, Anna, 21

119. DWORAK, Stefania, 16 killed on June 10, 1943 at Hucisko, in a group execution, for sheltering Jews (see: 19-20)

 

Poland has the highest number of people honoured at yad vashem and this is despite the fact that the Nazis had an immediate death penalty for any Poles found to be helping Jews.
Not only would the person caught be shot but so would their entire family.
The reason the Nazis introduced this death penalty (which only happened in Poland) was because so many Poles were helping Jews or hiding them.

Poland also had an underground organisation called Zegota which was devoted to helping Jews escape and in providing food aid to the ghetto. The Polish underground executed Poles who were found to betray Jews to the Nazis.

 

If so many Poles resisted the extermination of their Jewish countrymen, then how on Earth 3.100.000 Polish Jews, out of 3.250.000 in 1939, were annihilated?

Had it not been for the co-operation of many French, 90.000 French Jews wouldn't have been murdered as easily.

Look at Denmark, Italy and Yugoslavia, where the SS extermination results were mediocre because of the help provided by Gentiles, provoking a harsh response by Himmler against them and his own SS personnel.

Also, I think you have already forgotten the many Polish pogroms before and after WWII or the fact that in 1938 Poland closed her borders to her own Jews, when they were expelled from Germany.

 

It seems you need some help with history lessons and maybe some Facts ( the thing you seem to forget)

Ok:
Many people aren't aware that Poland was a sanctuary for Jews for 1,000 years when they were persecuted in other parts of Europe. Portugal and spain threw them out during the inquisition years. Other European countries forced them to integrate.
In Poland they were allowed to practise their religion and culture in relative peace.
This is why Poland had the second highest Jewish population in the world prior to WWII.

The only times Jews were persecuted was when Poland was invaded e.g. the partitions (entire 19th C to 1920s) and during WWII.
Poland during these times did not have a Polish Government.
Poland never surrendered during WWII and had no puppet government unlike the french govt who saved Jews because their collaboration with the Nazis enabled some autonomy.

 

accually with that accusations it is a quite wrong address:

During the war my gran grand mother lived in a small village called Narewka ( close to "Bialowieski National Park")
There was a 200 strong jewsh population.
One night a gruop of SS einsatzgruppen unit came to the village. They forced all Jews to dig big gaves an strip ( women and children altogheter)
They killed all the Jews of Narewka in few minutes.
That night My grandmother found a little baby in front of doors.The baby it is now my aunt Lisa.
She lives in Minsk.

Some polish families from Narewka were executed for hiding little jewish babies. They whole families were shot in front all villagers.

 

OK… after so many cheauvinist Poles have posted 'facts' in these forums, now they've convinced of how brave and super-nice was Poland. It was fate and xenophobia the cause of her miseries…

Too bad they didn't have a new Maria Waleswska to sleep with Hitler and convince him of the perfection and holiness of the Poles…

 

and please dont start another thread with me about polish-jewish relations beacause you will need mane years of study to develop an argument.
I made big reaserch about that after I found out my aunt Lisa is jewish I even went to Israel to talk to survivors.
I am also a an active particapant ion polish internet forum about holocaust

For me Holocaust it is the biggest shame of whole mankind that ever took place
It is also great pain that it took place on polish soil where 3,5 mln. Jews found their home.

Currently I study this subject from the perpetrators point of view.
I am trying to understand them. but I think that I never will

 

I don't understand You are trying to discuss with me
or
insult me???

 

Good for you…

The thing is that you and some of your fellow countrymen have flooded this nice forum with cheauvinist, arrogant, unreal, biased and disproportionate arguments… and the members, all very respectful and proud of Poland's brave services in WWII, are starting to hesitate on their fondness for Poland.

What you and your mates are doing is in complete detriment of Poland valuable and great efforts during the war.

I, personally, am fed up with so much Polish ranting…

 

maybe you dont like those facts I represented to you but they are facts You cant deny it
I showde you numbers, I showed You pictures.
What you can write me back is just denying.

Maybe it pisses you off
sorry I am not here to please You I am here to stop you from living in ilusions about WWII history

You seem to forget that you dont have a monopol for that knowledge

 

What pisses me off is your and your mates' lack of self-criticism. Seems that you can't accept or take any responsabilities for what Poland did in the past. Those facts you leave aside, and the facts you like, you throw at other people's noses claiming, like a little child, 'We were better but we were betrayed', 'We helped a lot and were stabbed in the back'.

I am French, I am German, I am Spanish, I am a European, I am a westener… and I perfectly accept that the French were incompetent and that they miserably lost a war and the collaborated with their opressors. I perfectly accept that Germany voluntarily became a totalitarian State and that gladly threw herself into the task of destroying Civilisation.

But I also know that Poland suffered a lot, yes, but was not either a martyr nor a key factor for VE day…

 

maybe after those losses and betrayals, 50 years of communizm we live now in a free, democratic, "well fed )" country.
all of this made us stronger
and in opposite to your oppinion it pisses me of when I watch US films showing americans fighting to get enigma in "U-5.."

YestI am conviced that without polish sacrifices WW2 would have a different end.
This victory was stolen from us in Jalta and Postdam.
Yes we were betrayed and sold for peaceful life of Sons of the West.
End please dont put me togheter with some anisemites because for me is a biggest insult

AMEN

 

and sorry but looking at the behaviour of Spain, France and specially Germany You have no right to tell any Pole that their granfather was not betrayed.
who do you represent?
Spain?-
France?-
or Germany?-

off course you could write me that you are a cosmopolitan. But you somewhere there was a place that you grew togheter with your political oppinions. and world perspective.
It must hav an impact on your life
So
Now I am not suprised with Your anti-Polish position on this forum you already proved

 

I will not put you to-gether with anti-semites.

But I will put you in my 'Victims of Goebbels' propaganda' list.

Because Poland contributed to VE day, but Germany would have ultimately been defeated with or without Poland. Therefore, even if very important, her contribution was not vital nor decisive.

Nor was Poland sold or betrayed, because the US and UK were not going to start WWIII for Poland's sake. And thank God they didn't.

 

tell me what was the reason UK started war against Germany??

 

The main tradition and rule of British foreign policy during the last 500 years: not letting any European nation become dominant in the continent, because, once achieved that, outersea expansion follows, treathening British interests.

Felipe II, Louis XIV, Louis XV, Napoléon I, Wilhelm II and Hitler got a taste of it.