The Warsaw ghetto uprising: Armed Jews vs. Nazis

The Washington Post ^ | October 10, 2015 | David Kopel

[Cronos]

I’ve read Mila 18 and while it is a nice read, it is fiction especially in the anti-semitism described pre-WWII

[Cronos]

i'm not Polish -- my wife is and I've lived here 5 years. I love history and from an observer's factual point of view, I can say that historically Poland has very low anti-semitic violence. and ALL of that was post the partitions.

When one thinks of the pogroms, one must remember that these were Tsarist sponsored and Tsarist run. The one smear against the Poles is Jedwabna - 300 Jews killed. Horrifying, but not enough to smear an entire nation

60% of world Jewry lived in Poland before Poland was torn apart by Russia, Prussia and Austria. Jews called it Polin - the blessed land. Jews were allowed to live, worship and build with no obstruction and were equal members of society

I hate, HATE, lies that call Poles anti-semites

[DuncanWaring]

How’s that?

It’s been a couple of decades since I’ve read it.

[Cronos]

it describes a Poland in inter-war years that has anti-Jewish violence. That's not true.

It also says that Poles were persecuted from the time they came to Poland -- that's again demonstrably false -- why were 60% of the World's Jews in the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth in 1790 if they were persecuted? And one sees no pogroms before 1800 or after 1920 -- and Poland did not exist in that time period (it was wiped off the map from 1791 to 1919)