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The Jews and the Poles in World War II
viii, 136 pp. This is the story of what the Poles did to try and save the Jews in the face of the most brutal reprisals--automatic sentences of death to entire families--carried out by Germans during World War II against anyone who sheltered or aided a Jew. Poland was the only occupied land where aiding the Jews in any way was automatically punished by death. That over 100,000 Jews were saved in Poland, hidden by Polish families and Catholic convents and monasteries, is proof of great deeds of heroism by hundreds of thousands of Poles. Over 3000 are known to have been executed for their actions on behalf of the Jews. This is also the tragic story of Polish Jewish relations after the Second World War as seen by someone who was a member of the post war parliament and a leader of the Polish Peasant Party, the largest party in opposition to the Communists. Keywords: STEFAN KORBONSKI JEWS POLES SECOND WORLD WAR TWO WWII WW2 MILITARY HISTORY POLAND POLISH JEWISH HOLOCAUST
