"Polish death camps"

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89. I Try To Keep My Prejudices Under Control...

I grew up hearing stories from my grandmother of the progroms in her stetl about 60 miles from Warsaw. These weren't Nazis...this was around 1900 and she lived the rest of her 80 years with the torment of Polish "police" officers coming into her village, stealing, raping and destroying. Or there's the collection of letters I have from her brothers who remained in an independent Poland following WW1 who were constantly harassed by local authorities and where unsolved murders were just a way of life. In the 70s my parents went back to the town to see if there were any family members remaining. Of a population that was once over 25,000 Jews, only 3 remained. The Nazi didn't act alone and the attempts to make the Polish appear as the "saviors" of the Jews is an insult to the nearly 2,000,000 who died in Poland alone. My grandmother never heard an appology from the Polish government in her lifetime...nor an answer to whatever happened to her brothers.