The Polish Book Burning |
Poland 2021 On
November 13, 2021, a prominent Polish politician, Wojciech Olszański,
burned a book in public on a street in the town of Kalisz, a city of 100,000
inhabitants. The book, published in the 13th century, guarantees Jews
the right to live in Poland. As
the book burned, the population stood in the streets and shouted in chorus,
“Death to the Jews.” This expression of hate continues the
Polish–Christian involvement of the mass murder of three million Jews who
lived in Poland during the occupation of Poland by the German army between 1939
and 1945. Then, as now, the vast majority of Christians in Poland, a country of
37 million, participated vigorously in killing almost all Polish Jews. Polish
citizens worked in the Nazi death camps and benefited a great deal from the mass
murder of the Polish Jews, as the Christians stole all the possessions of the
slaughtered Jews, including houses, furniture, pictures, kitchen utensils,
bedding, and clothes. Like the citizens of every European country occupied by
German troops, the Poles searched Jewish homes for money, their greed knowing no
limits. The book burning resembled
the book burning conducted by the Nazis in Germany. Note that the syllable NAZI
is a part of the German word NAZIONAL or “National” in English. Hitler’s
party was called Die (The) Nazional Sozialistische (socialist) Deutsche (GermAn) Arbeiter (workers)
Partei. The
current Jewish population of Poland is only 10,000, so that most Poles have
never seen a Jew. Yet, to this day they scream in the streets “death to the
Jews,” and they mean it. It
is hard to believe that even one Jew still lives in Poland. Even in Germany,
there are laws prohibiting death threats against Jews, but in Poland it was Kristallnacht
all over again. Shalom
u’vracha. Dr. Gerhard Falk is the author of numerous publications, including The American Jewish Community in the 20th and 21st Century (2021). |