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What the US ambassador to Poland left out when he absolved Poland of Holocaust complicity

JL;DR SUMMARY In a critical response to U.S. Ambassador Thomas Rose's recent speech, Menachem Z. Rosensaft argues that absolving Poland of any Holocaust complicity overlooks the complex historical realities. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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HolocaustRighteous Among The NationsPolandHolocaust MemoryNazi OccupationCollaborationJedwabneThomas RoseKielce Pogrom

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Warsaw, Mazovia, Poland
"Addressing a conference on antisemitism in Warsaw organized by the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists, Rose declared categorically that Poland has been burdened with the moral stain that was never its own, the persistent belief that Poland shares guilt for the barbaric crimes committed against it, adding, for good measure, Its a grotesque falsehood and the equivalent of a blood libel against the Polish people and Polish nation."
Sosnowiec, Silesia, Poland
"My parents were Polish Jews who were incarcerated in the ghettos of their respective hometowns, Bdzin and Sosnowiec, and then deported to Auschwitz, also in Poland, where virtually their entire families were murdered."
Auschwitz, Lesser Poland, Poland
"My parents were Polish Jews who were incarcerated in the ghettos of their respective hometowns, Bdzin and Sosnowiec, and then deported to Auschwitz, also in Poland, where virtually their entire families were murdered."
Jedwabne, Podlachia, Poland
"A further highlight in the litany of things Rose chose not to mention in his speech was the horrific 1941 slaughter of hundreds of Jews by Poles in the eastern Polish town of Jedwabne."
Kielce, Holy Cross, Poland
"And then there was the post-war 1946 pogrom in the city of Kielce in which a Polish mob killed 46 Jews who had managed to survive the Holocaust."
Israel
"It is also true that more than 7,000 non-Jewish Poles more than from any other Nazi-occupied country have been recognized by Yad Vashem in Israel as Righteous Among the Nations, that is, men and women who risked or gave their lives to rescue or help Jews."

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