![]() | The Waffen SS: Hitler's Elite Guard at War, 1939-45 by George H. Stein
Buy new: $17.95 / Used from: $6.98 True or False: There were Polish SS units in existence serving the Germans.
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![]() | Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning
Buy new: $10.79 / Used from: $5.85 This widely-read scholarly work has been quoted as proof of the Polish willingness to denounce or kill fugitive Jews during the Nazi occupation. Is that what it shows? (see the detailed Peczkis review).
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![]() | The Holocaust and the Crisis of Human Behavior by George M. Kren
Buy new: $18.95 / Used from: $5.06 True or False: The degree of anti-Semitism of the locals and their degree of collaboration played a major, if not decisive, role in the degree of success of the Germans in exterminating the local Jews.
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![]() | The Destruction of the European Jews, 3 Volume Set (Third Edition) by Raul Hilberg
Buy new: $128.25 / Used from: $136.10 One of the world's leading Holocaust scholars recognized the fact that fugitive Jews often stole from Polish peasants during the German-Nazi occupation. (This created a bad name for fugitive Jews in the eyes of peasants. For this reason, some peasants became receptive to German propaganda that portrayed fugitive Jews as bandits who should be denounced or liquidated). (see the Peczkis review).
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![]() | Diary from the Years of Occupation 1939-44 by Zygmunt Klukowski
Buy used from: $221.71 This diary, written by a Pole, has been quoted by Jan T. Gross as showing the consistent Polish hostility towards Jews during the Nazi occupation. Is this what it actually indicates? (See the detailed Peczkis review.)
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![]() | Pogrobowcy kleski: Rzecz o policji "granatowej" w Generalnym Gubernatorstwie, 1939-1945 (Polish Edition) by Adam Hempel
To what extent was the Polish "Blue" Police collaborationist, non-collaborationist, and anti-collaborationist during the Nazi German rule over Poland? (see the detailed English-language Peczkis review).
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![]() | The Holocaust of Volhynian Jews: 1941-44 by Shmuel Spector
Buy used from: $95.00 An Israeli scholar carefully examines claims that the Polish guerillas (AK), acting during the German occupation, often killed fugitive Jews.
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![]() | Collaboration in the Holocaust: Crimes of the Local Police in Belorussia and Ukraine, 1941-44 by Martin Dean
Buy new: $49.00 / Used from: $29.79 This book does not mention the Jedwabne massacre, but it does make it obvious how Poles came to be blamed for it. (see the Peczkis review).
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![]() | The Politics of Retribution in Europe
Buy new: $30.95 / Used from: $25.00 Includes some of the views of Jan T. Gross before they became better known through his publication of NEIGHBORS and FEAR (see the Peczkis review).
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![]() | Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland by Jan T. Gross
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $5.50 A controversial book that brought the Jedwabne massacre to the world's attention.
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![]() | NEIGHBOURS: THE DESTRUCTION OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY IN JEDWABNE, POLAND by JAN T GROSS
Buy used from: $5.85 An alternative printing of the preceeding.
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![]() | After the Holocaust by Marek Jan Chodakiewicz
Buy used from: $366.25 A little-known scholarly book which discusses postwar Polish killings of Jews, yet which appeared well before Jan T. Gross' FEAR. It is conspicuously ignored by Gross in his FEAR. Read it and understand why! Learn about some Soviet sources which affirm the Communist staging of the Kielce Pogrom.
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![]() | Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz by Jan Gross
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $2.12 An additional description of the Jedwabne massacre, the Kielce Pogrom, and postwar Polish killings of Jews.
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![]() | The Massacre in Jedwabne, July 10, 1941: Before, During, After by Marek Jan Chodakiewicz
Buy new: $40.00 / Used from: $32.74 A little-known yet detailed scholarly study of the Jedwabne massacre that is conveniently ignored by Jan T. Gross in his FEAR. Read it and you'll soon know why.
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![]() | The Neighbors Respond: The Controversy over the Jedwabne Massacre in Poland
Buy new: $25.78 / Used from: $7.00 An anthology of discussions and reflections surrounding the Jedwabne massacre.
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![]() | Thou shalt not kill: Poles on Jedwabne
Buy used from: $7.00 A self-critical view by and of Poles in the wake of publicity about the Jedwabne massacre.
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![]() | Difficult Postwar Years: Polish Voices in Debate Over Jan T. Gross 's Book Fear
A mostly self-critical view by and of Poles in the wake of the publication of Gross' FEAR.
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![]() | Deliverance: The Diary of Michael Maik, a True Story by Michael Maik
A Jewish diarist who wrote during the war and who interviewed Jewish escapees from the Jedwabne massacre. They fingered the Germans as the main ones responsible for this atrocity.
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![]() | The Warriors: My Life As A Jewish Soviet Partisan (Religion, Theology, and the Holocaust) by Harold Zissman
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $24.14 Another Jewish source which fingers the Germans as the main killers of the Jews of Jedwabne.
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![]() | Between Falsehood and Truth by Stefan Nowicki
Buy used from: $18.00 Jedwabne's Father Orlowski knew Father Kebinski. The latter lived during the Jedwabne massacre and, speaking fluent German, often served as a translator. Father Kebinski fingered the Germans as the killers of Jedwabne's Jews.
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![]() | Sto klamstw J.T. Grossa o Jedwabnem i zydowskich sasiadach (Polish Edition) by Jerzy Robert Nowak
A hard-hitting Polish-language book that serves as an excellent reality check on the claims of Jan T. Gross. See the detailed English-language Peczkis review of this book.
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![]() | Jedwabne Geszefty by Henryk Pajak
An analysis of publicity about the Jedwabne massacre and the possible agenda behind it. This Polish-language book has an extensive English-language review by Jan Peczkis.
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![]() | Jabotinsky and Jedwabne.: An article from: Midstream by Laurence Weinbaum
Buy new: $5.95 An essay on the Jedwabne massacre.
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![]() | Jedwabne and Bruno Schulz: Jews and Poles apart. (The Shoah).: An article from: Midstream by Harold Ticktin
Buy new: $5.95 An essay on the Jedwabne massacre.
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![]() | Jews in Poland: A Documentary History by Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski
Buy used from: $52.92 Includes a detailed analysis of the Kielce Pogrom, and uses seldom-available sources in doing so.
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![]() | Pogrom Zydow w Kielcach, 4 lipca 1946 (Polish Edition) by Bozena Szaynok
A concise Polish-language study of the Kielce Pogrom. Reviewed in English by Jan Peczkis.
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![]() | Umarly cmentarz: Wstep do studiow nad wyjasnieniem przyczyn i przebiegu morderstwa na Zydach w Kielcach dnia 4 lipca 1946 roku (Polish Edition) by Krzysztof Kakolewski
Title: THE CEMETERY THAT DIED. Includes fascinating insights into the Kielce Pogrom. See the detailed English-language Peczkis review of this Polish-language book. This review is based on the 2004 edition.
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![]() | Kielce - July 4, 1946 - Background, Context and Events - A Collective Work
Buy used from: $64.64 A concise English-language summary of the Kielce Pogrom.
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![]() | A Surplus of Memory: Chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (A Centennial Book) by Yitzhak ("Antek") Zuckerman
Buy new: $52.00 / Used from: $15.00 A relatively influential Polish Jew who survived the Holocaust indicates that Kielce's Jews were disarmed by the Communist-terror police (UB, or bezpieka) the day BEFORE the Kielce Pogrom. Considering the fact that the Soviets kept the UB on a very tight leash, it is doubtful if the UB could have done this without Soviet orders.
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![]() | Poland, Communism, nationalism, anti-semitism by Michael Checinski
Buy used from: $84.56 A Polish Jew who served in the Communist security forces supports the premise of Soviet staging of the Kielce Pogrom.
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![]() | Constructions of the Kielce pogrom.: An article from: Midstream by Robert L. Cohn
Buy new: $9.95 Includes an interview with Henryk Blaszczyk, the onetime boy "kidnapped by Jews." If Kielce was just a spontaneous anti-Semitic outrage, why was Blaszczyk subsequently intimidated into silence about his experiences, and by who?
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![]() | Every Day Lasts A Year: A Jewish Family's Correspondence from Poland
Buy new: $20.44 / Used from: $2.99 A recently-published fairly often-reviewed book that, while purportedly about the Holocaust, mentions the prewar Przytyk Pogrom of 1936 in a superficial manner.
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![]() | On the Edge of Destruction: Jews of Poland Between the Two World Wars by Celia Stopnicka Heller
Buy new: $22.95 / Used from: $4.50 The conventional description of the Przytyk Pogrom given to English-speaking readers.
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![]() | Pogrom? Zajscia polsko-zydowskie w Przytyku 9 marca 1936 r. : Mity, Fakty, Dokumenty (Polish and English Edition) by Piotr Gontarczyk
This Polish-language book has an extensive English-language review by Peczkis. It is a detailed, scholarly study of the pre-WWII Przytyk Pogrom (1936).
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![]() | All in a life-time, by Henry Morgenthau
Buy used from: $18.62 Henry Morgenthau, a high-ranking American Jewish member of the Wilson administration, went to Poland with his team to investigate the 1918-era pogroms. Here is what he found.
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![]() | Poland and the Minority Races (Eastern Europe Collection Series) by Arthur L. Goodhart
Buy used from: $17.98 Another report from the Morgenthau investigation of the 1918-era Polish pogroms.
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![]() | Pamietniki z Wyborem Dokumentow i Zdjec by Jozef Haller
General Haller's 1918-era army has at times been accused of pogroms, and of cutting off the beards of Orthodox Jewish men. Now hear Haller's side of the story. (See the detailed English-language Peczkis review).
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![]() | History and Jewish Historians: Essays and Addresses by Salo Wittmayer Baron
Buy used from: $8.75 Jewish historian Salo Baron believes that Polish pogroms have been greatly exaggerated in terms of scale, and in terms of significance to the Jewish experience.
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![]() | The Holocaust in Historical Context: Volume 1: The Holocaust and Mass Death before the Modern Age by Steven T. Katz
Buy used from: $7.94 Puts pogroms in general into a broader context. Provides a comprehensive and very detailed analysis of many past episodes of the killing of Jews, as during the Crusades. The author concludes that no previous pogroms came even remotely close to the 20th century Nazi German Holocaust.
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![]() | The saga of Deir Yassin: Massacre, revisionism, and reality by Daniel A McGowan
Up to now, all the entries in this Listmania have focused on Jews as victims. This one is added, for balance, as an example of Jews as victimizers.
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