Big Bulletin: Polish Non-Complicity in the Holocaust

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The information below is an analysis written by Jan Peczkis, who has analyzed over 1,700 works by Jewish and non-Jewish authors on historical and contemporary Polish-Jewish interrelations. We feature Jan’s database website on our Resources webpage in the section titled “Polish-Jewish Relations”. The article titled “Jan Peczkis’s 1,700 book reviews will improve your understanding of…

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Poland and Russia: The Neighborhood of Freedom and Despotism in the X-XXI Centuries

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(For professors, college students, teachers, and adults). In this scholarly work, Professor Andrzej Nowak reviews the history of Poland through the lens of its relations with Russia and presents the ideological beliefs Russia employed throughout its history to achieve its foreign policy objectives through interactions with Poland and the region’s Central and Eastern European states.…

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Between Myth and Truth. Jewish Partisans During World War II

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(For high school students, teachers, and adults). This 18-minute video reveals the facts behind the illusion that Jewish partisans engaged in armed combat against occupying German forces. [To read the speaker’s Polish narration in English, click on the CC (Closed Captions) icon on the bottom right of the video.]  A partisan is a member of…

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