More than sixty years after the horror that was the second world War, Poland tries to assert that Polish dead count for more than all the other souls sent to their Maker in those dreadful years. Over one group alone should heads be bowed for ever; the Jews of Europe, killed by every country of which they were citizens and intrinsically part, including Poland. And in every country, too, there were those who tried to save them, and died too, because of it.
For the rest of the War dead, we can all produce the numbers, they are carved in cold stone in every parish church, in every village and town, in every city, everywhere.
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Poland was unique - in no other Occupied country did all the residents of an apartment block where Jews were sheltered go to the concentration camp.
I know - my relatives in Occupied Poland hid Jews and escaping POWs....only to end up in Communist labour camps
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