Was Holocaust German or Polish?

Was Holocaust German or Polish?

Although it’s a simple question, many people around the world still refer to Holocaust or Nazi concentration camps as being Polish. The below stories presents the horrific view hold by the American leaders.

In his speech in 2012, ‘President Barack Obama has caused an outcry in Poland after referring to a Nazi death camp as "Polish.’ What is the just a ‘mistake’ or the general lack of history? The White House speaker told the Polish nation that Mr Obama ‘misspoke’ and regrets the comment but offers no apology.

Another US ‘fail’ was recorded earlier on this week when the FBI chief James Comey said 'in their minds, the murderers and accomplices of Germany, and Poland, and Hungary, and so many, many other places didn't do something evil.’ Calling Poles murderers of Jew when they actually done the opposite (hiding them in their basements from Nazi Germans), provide them with food and drink, and allow them to organise gatherings in their houses.

Poland's president Bronislaw Komorowski told public television that Comey's comments showed a 'lack of historical knowledge' and were an 'insult to thousands of Poles who helped Jews' (Daily mail, 2015). The President of Poland, and millions of Polish, Hungarian, Jews and even German citizens are demanding a prominent apology from the FBI chief or Barack Obama, stating that an apology received from the US consul for Poland is not enough.

The HolocaustExplained (2015) provides a great explanation of the camps and answers the above question of Holocaust … maybe the US leaders should visit this site to learn some more historical facts before opening their mouths?

Anyway … here is the explanation:

‘Hitler was appointed Chancellor on 30 January 1933. Immediately, the SA stepped up their campaign of violence and terror against the communists. They did this in order to increase their power and to reduce opposition.

Across Germany the local police and SA and SS rounded up many thousands of communists, socialists, church leaders and anyone else who might criticise the Nazis. 

As prisoners were physically concentrated in one place the Nazis called these first camps concentration camps.

Over the next 12 years, as they invaded and occupied lands all over Europe, the Nazis would build over 20,000 camps of various kinds. These included concentration camps, transit camps, forced labour or work camps and death camps.’

Daily mail (2015) Stephen Mull, US Ambassador, apologies after FBI chief claimed Polish were ‘murderers’ who helped Germany kill Jews during Holocaust [Online] Available: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3045953/Poland-demands-apology-U-S-FBI-head-s-Holocaust-remarks.html [Last accessed: 21/04/2015]

The Holocaust Explained (2015) German Concentration camps history [Online] Available: http://www.theholocaustexplained.org/ks3/the-camps/#.VTYQdk10yM8 [Last accessed: 21/04/2015]

The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler

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REMEMBER THIS LADY!!!

Look at this lady - Let us never forget!
The world hasn't just become wicked...it's always been wicked.
The prize doesn't always go to the most deserving.

Irena Sendler
Died 12 May 2008 (aged 98)
Warsaw, Poland

During WWII, Irena, got permission to work in the Warsaw ghetto, as a plumbing/sewer specialist.

She had an 'ulterior motive'.

She KNEW what the Nazi's plans were for the Jews (being German).

Irena smuggled infants out in the bottom of the tool box she carried and she carried in the back of her truck a burlap sack, (for larger kids).

She also had a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto.

The soldiers of course wanted nothing to do with the dog and the barking covered the kids/infants noises.

During her time of doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants.

She was caught, and the Nazi's broke both her legs, arms and beat her severely.

Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she smuggled out and kept them in a glass jar, buried under a tree in her back yard.

After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived it and reunited the family.

Most had been gassed. Those kids she helped got placed into foster family homes or adopted.

Last year Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize.

She was not selected.

President Obama won one year before becoming President for his work as a community organizer for ACORN

and

In MEMORIAM - 63 YEARS LATER

I'm doing my small part by forwarding this message.

I hope you'll consider doing the same...

It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War in Europe ended.

This e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the six million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians and 1,900 Catholic priests who were murdered, massacred, raped, burned, starved and humiliated!

Now, more than ever, with Iran, and others, claiming the HOLOCAUST to be 'a myth'.

It's imperative to make sure the world never forgets, because there are others who would like to do it again.

Poland's 'Ida' wins best foreign language film Oscar

(Reuters) - Black-and-white Polish drama "Ida" won the Oscar for best foreign language film on Sunday, capping a successful awards season run in which the austere tale of identity in post-World War Two Poland won top awards in Europe and the United States.

Director Pawel Pawlikowski's film, about a novitiate nun who learns she is a Jewish orphan, earned the country its first Academy Award in 10 total nominations in the category.

“To my Polish friends who are in front of the TV, the crew who were in the trenches with us and who are totally drunk now and you were fantastic, you were brilliant, you carried me through this film and you are what I love about Poland, your resilient courage is brave and funny," the filmmaker said.

Pawlikowski, 57, drew laughter and applause from the audience for continuing his speech after the play-off music had started.

"Ida" has won Britain's BAFTA for best foreign film, and top film, director, screenplay, cinematography and audience honors at the European Film Awards.

Cinematographers, Lukasz Zal and Ryszard Lenczewski, have also earned Oscar nominations for best cinematography.

The film set in 1962 follows novice nun Anna, played by 23-year-old amateur actress Agata Trzebuchowska, as she travels with her aunt Wanda, a fallen Stalin-era prosecutor, to the countryside where Anna was born as a Jew named Ida.

The widely praised film that touches on personal history and individual culpability has been criticized by Polish nationalists who believe it unfairly depicts Poles during the war and for its lack of focus on the German occupation.

Pawlikowski said ahead of the Oscars that he did not want to make a film that explained Polish history but one that explored the characters' "psychological situation and paradoxes of the human soul."

Pawel Pawlikowski IDA Wins Best Foreign Language Film Oscar 2015 Acceptance Speech

                             IDA Movie Trailer (2014)