Posts by Gene Sokolowski

(For professors, college students, teachers, and interested adults) The phrase “Holocaust Industry” is one with which most Americans are unaware. It became popular after Norman Finkelstein, a former professor at DePaul University, published his book, titled The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering. In it, he presents extensive evidence of Jewish extortionist…

This publication by Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance presents the preliminary results of work carried out within the “Index of Poles murdered or persecuted for helping Jews during World War II” program. The main, and at the same time, overriding aim of the activities undertaken as part of the “Index” project is to establish the…

(For college professors and students, parents, teachers, and adults). This well-researched work by British author and historian Clare Mulley presents the amazing story of Elzbieta Zawacka, a Polish World War II resistance fighter whose exploits are truly exceptional and helped restore Polish women to their rightful place in the historical record. Born in 1909, her…

(For high school students, teachers, college students, and adults). As one review of Jack Fairweather’s book notes, this is the true story of Witold Pilecki’s unprecedented heroism.  In September 1940, he volunteered for a suicidal reconnaissance mission and allowed himself to be arrested by the Germans and sent to Auschwitz. There were informal reports of…

(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.…