On Friday (24.03.2023) we celebrate the National Memorial Day of Poles saving Jews under German occupation, established on the initiative of president Andrzej Duda in 2017 on the anniversary of the death of the Ulmów household from Markowa murdered on 24 March 1944. As a consequence of the report, the German MPs shot the full family, the pregnant Victoria and her husband Joseph and their six children. The Germans besides shot 8 Jews they had hidden. This is what German “higher culture” looked like in practice.
About the Ulmów household hiding Jews, he most likely reported to Germans a navy policeman from Łańcuta, Włodzimierz Leś. Who was he, and why did he file a study resulting in 17 deaths? According to information published by IPN, Leś was considered a Ukrainian, as were his grandparents who came to Rzeszów from east Galicia. Before the Jews hidden by the Ulms went to Markowa, Leś helped respective of them hide from the Germans. Why did he turn them in? Most likely it was about the property that the Jews hid from Les, which he did not intend to return to them. If that was the case, he shortly enjoyed his plundered property. On September 10, 1944, soldiers of the Polish underground executed the conviction on him. The forest was shot in the chain. On the another hand, the commander of the German Gendarmerie Station, Lieutenant Eilert Dieken, who ordered the execution of the Ulms and the Jews they hide, was never tried and sentenced for this crime. After the war, he worked for the West German police. He died in 1960 at the age of 62.
In 1995, Victoria and Joseph Ulm were honored with the title Righteous among the planet Nations. But there was no Hollywood movie about them, which, if it had been made, would surely have been an Oscar candidate. So why didn't he? due to the fact that specified a movie would show the full planet that the price Poles paid for saving Jews was the death of the full family. But the current communicative says that Poles did not do adequate to save Jews and so they are jointly liable for the Holocaust. Not much, according to the communicative built by specified "history" as Jan T. Gross and Jan Grabowski (Abrahamer) Poles were mainly busy murdering Jews, and if they didn't execution them, they would hand them over to German hands. The beginning of the museum in Markowa in 2016 met with the cool reaction of the Institute of Jad Yours. The manager of this institute, Irena Steinfeldt, stated at the time that although the number of Poles awarded the Righteous Medal among the Nations of the planet is highest compared to another countries, in the face of 3 million judaic victims it is alternatively low. – After all, it's a minority. She said.
The beginning of the museum in Markowa besides did not like Jan Grabowski, who focused on the individual of policeman Lesia indicating that he was a Pole-informer. This would prove his thesis that in Polish-Jewish relations it was dominant to spend Jews to Germans, and if the Pole was hiding a Jew, he did it for money, not for humanitarian reasons. So in the past of the Ulmów family, the most crucial for Grabowski is not the 1 who rescued Jews, but the 1 who gave up Jews, which is the 1 who would be a typical Pole.
Apart from whether Leś was Polish or Ukrainian, and whether he reported the Ulms hiding Jews, the fact remains that the Polish underground issued a judgement on him, which was executed. At this point it is worth recalling that on March 18, 1943, the Underground civilian Combat Management announced that “any Pole who cooperates with their [Germans – ep. KTS] murderous action whether blackmailing or denuncing Jews, whether exploiting their cruel position or participating in plundering, commits a serious crime against the rights of the Republic of Poland and will be punished immediately”. The punishment was a death sentence, but the execution of specified a conviction under business conditions entailed a very serious risk. Therefore, if the charge against Poles present is that they have not executed besides many sentences on moneymakers, then we have another example of purposeful, anti-Polish narrative, thanks to which Poles are to be sent from the category of victims to the category of executioners.
The subject of the taboo, on the another hand, is that Jews were besides moneymakers. And although this fact cannot be hidden, specified Jews are tried to justify. Jan Grabowski does this by writing that the activity of judaic moneymakers was “an effort to buy his own life or the life of his loved ones.It’s okay. ” – It is not my occupation to submit to their moral judgment, but it is surely not possible to put these people in the same row with “Aryan” moneymakers, for whom catching hiding Jews was simply a occupation, specified as others – writes Grabowski in the article “The blackmail of Jews: the casus of Warsaw 1939-1945” published in the 2008 Historical Review.
This is what whitening judaic wines looks like. A Jew-slammer cannot be subjected to moral judgement due to the fact that he tried to save his life. But erstwhile the judaic rescuer Pole put his own life at risk, it should be recalled that among Poles there were moneymakers who lived from judaic harm. The point is that in the communicative about Poles the positives do not obscure the negatives, and in the communicative about Jews – to justify the negatives. The judaic argument about “trying to buy your own life” is to justify everything and cannot be given moral judgment. But why can't you? Is it moral to effort to save your own life by giving up people who have previously helped the 1 who gave them up? Here's the communicative that I.P.N. reminded you about, organizing yesterday. celebrations commemorating the families of Kucharski and Books murdered by Germans for helping Jews. Here's a description of the crime:
The families of Cooks and Books together with respective others helped Jews hiding in the villages of Wierzbica and Wolica. In January 1943, 1 of the hidden captured by the Germans agreed to indicate the German penal expedition all farms that provided assistance to the judaic population. On 29 January 1943 armed German service officers under the command of Volksdeutsch Kazimierz Nowak went successively to indicated homes and murdered all the people there.
In Wolica they shot Jan Gądek, his wife Władysława and his mother-in-law Balbina Bielawska. In Wierzbica, at the home of the book family, they murdered 2 Jews hidden there and Peter the Book, his sons John and Sigismund and wife Julia Książek. In the home of Nowaks, they murdered the host and his several-year-old daughter. On the Kucharski farm, they shot 8 people who stayed at home at the time. Anna Kucharska and 14-year-old Mieczysław were murdered and Bolesław and the twins Józef and Stefan. Their grandma Julianna Ostrowska was besides shot. They were miraculously rescued, though they were badly wounded – the father of the household Izidor Kucharski (who was wounded for life) and his boy Bronisław Kucharski (who lost his sight). Finally, the German criminal expedition murdered the Jew, who pointed out the farms, as well as Stanisław Tochowicz, who was encountered along the way.
Already in 1943, the National Army on behalf of the Republic of Poland made a successful assassination of Volksdeutsch Nowak, liable for many crimes in Poles, Jews and Roma. He was fatally wounded and died in the infirmary in Miechów.
In summary: Poles hid Jews, and Jews gave them all to death. And he didn't buy his life with it. I do not know whether he actually believed that he would last if he showed Germans Poles hiding Jews. But he must have known he was giving them up to die. And he did. And it was not the only case erstwhile a hebrew captured by the Germans gave up those who had previously hidden it. The consequence has always been the same, that is the death of the Poles and Jews who were hidden by them. And Jews have no problem with that. However, they blame Poles for not saving them from the Holocaust. Here's how Dr. Alina All from the judaic Historical Institute She replied to the question “How many Jews are liable to you for the death?”:
In a sense, for the death of all – 3 million. due to the fact that these people were concentrated in ghettos, transported to camps and murdered in the inactivity of Polish neighbours. ...I agree that the surrounding population could not always do something. But this is about moral judgment. Poles as a nation failed the exam. The Polish neighbors behaved passively in their mass, which made the task very easy for the Germans. It doesn't make sense to calculate how many Jews you can't save.
As you can see, Poles did not pass the moral exam due to the fact that they did not save 3 million Jews, although the death punishment was threatened for helping Jews. On the another hand, Jews who spent their lives hiding Jews and hiding their Poles cannot be subjected to moral evaluation due to the fact that they tried to save their own lives. If Poles accepted this knowing of morality, as presented by Alina All and Jan Grabowski, no hebrew would find shelter under the Polish roof. According to this knowing of morality, the Ulms should give Jews to Germany, not hide them. That's how they would save their lives and their children's lives. But according to the explanation of morality presented by All and Grabowski, the effort to save your life justifies everything. Polish families who hid Jews, and who were murdered as a consequence of the Germans' instruction by Jews trying to save their own lives, are victims of specified morality. It is worth reminding about this on the National Memorial Day of Poles saving Jews under German occupation.
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