Polish-Catholics and Catholic-Poles

Błoński, Jan
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Title Polish-Catholics and Catholic-Poles : the gospel, national interest, civic solidarity, and the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto.
Original Library/publisher Przeciw antysemityzmowi 1936-2009. Wybor, wstęp i opracowanie Adam Michnik. Vols. I-III. Kraków: Towarzystwo Autorów i Wydawców Prac Naukowych Universitas, 2010
Host Item Yad Vashem Studies 25 (1996) 181-196
Description Gives the text (on pp. 182-183) of a handbill entitled "Protest", written by the Polish-Catholic writer Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, and issued by the Front Odrodzenia Polski in August 1942. The handbill, appealing to Poles to condemn the crime of the Nazi genocide of the Jews, is also blatantly antisemitic. Reflects on this seemingly contradictory document. Kossak-Szczucka's logic, though, is consistent with traditional Polish antisemitic thought, which viewed the Jews as "Poland's innate enemies" and called for separation from them, but at the same time, following Christian commandments, ruled out genocide. This type of antisemitism does not kill nor does it rule out compassion and active help for Jews. But it contributes to the intensification of anti-Jewish prejudice, and indirectly lays the burden of shared blame on Polish society for the destruction of the Jews. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
English and Hebrew. Appeared in Hebrew also in
"החשבון הפולני - עימות עם זיכרון" (2007) 49-62
Appeared in Polish as "Polak-katolik i katolik-polak
nakaz ewangeliczny, interes narodowy i solidarność obywatelska wobec zagłady getta warszawskiego" in "Przeciw antysemityzmowi 1936-2009" I (2010) 707-721.
Language English
Polish
Credits באדיבות יש ושם – רשות הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה Courtesy of Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
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