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by MarcelOlsz 541 days ago
Yes I am aware of the "szmalcowniki", those that extorted Jews for profit and it is unfortunate.

Are you aware of underground organizations like Żegota? Or Jan Karski who risked his life to document the Warsaw ghetto and providing munitions to the Jewish fighters in the uprising?

Or the thousands of families that helped aid Jews like the Ulma family killed with the family they were hiding, or nun Matylda Getter who rescued hundreds of Jewish children, or Żabiński who hid hundreds in a zoo. Or the 7000+ poles recognized by Yad Vashem, the highest of any nation. Poland was the only occupied country where aiding Jews was punishable by death.

I urge you to look into the following families and their roles in aiding jews in WWII: Ulma, Kowalski, Baranek, Zabinski, Kossak, Podgorski sisters, Wojciechowski, Baranek, Skoczylas, Jarosz, Przybylski, Wolski, Banasiewicz, Bartosiewicz and many others.

Also, I meant more in the general sense of the populace resisting occupation time and time again seeing as we still have a country, which doesn't happen without sacrificing for one another.

What town are you talking about btw?

>Look what Denmark and Bulgaria did in the same situation.

Yes they had much more time to evacuate their Jewish populations. We had the largest population and we were first to be invaded.

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I'm not saying nobody in Poland did anything, but that isn't the standard. I think this is the story:

https://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyle/film-about-massacr...

>"Even if this terrible crime concerns only 1 percent of the Polish nation, it doesn't matter, because we want to know about that."
The problem is that for every 1 percent that actively does the nasty stuff, you have a lot more people watching and, at best, pretending that it doesn't concern them, and at worst, sympathizing with the violence.