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| 660 meters and just 25 years between these two Estranged pictures. |
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| Mordechaj Anielewicz, the leader of the uprising in the middle of the Ghetto Fighters monument in Warsaw |
Estranged 75 years ago
The Z.O.B - Jewish Fighting Organization, led by 23-year-old Mordechaj Anielewicz, issued a proclamation calling for the Jewish people to resist going to the cattle cars at Umschlagplatz.
In January 1943, Warsaw ghetto fighters fired upon German troops as they tried to round up another group of ghetto inhabitants for deportation. Fighters used a small supply of weapons that had been smuggled into the ghetto. After a few days, the troops retreated. This very small victory inspired the ghetto fighters to prepare for future resistance.
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| The leaflet, issued in January 1943 in the Warsaw Ghetto, was written and distributed by the Jewish Combat Organization (ŻOB), whose commander was Mordechaj Anielewicz. The only ŻOB-commander! Jews The occupier is proceeding to the second act of your extermination. Do not go submissively to your death… Defend yourselves. Take an axe, a crowbar, and a knife in your hand; barricade your home. LET THEM CONQUER YOU THIS WAY… In struggle, you have a chance for salvation… FIGHT… |
Museum Polin in Warsaw seems to be fully focused on the project Estranged (adjective or verb?). Probably, therefore, there is no info about the year 1943 and what happened during the Warsaw Ghetto (armed Jewish Uprising). All this, although the Museum Polin building is in the middle of the area of the former Warsaw Ghetto. Mr. Stola (director) & Co. seems to ignore totally that the year 2018 is also the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, such an important occurrence in the history of Jewish resistance. Now, it is almost fully neglected.
Estranged seems to take all the time and the funds, and it is likely that the group that is working with the project is estranged both as an adjective and a verb, but decided not to leave Poland together with the Last Jewish emigration. Now is a time to establish the new generation of Jewish-Polish heroes.
Estranged 50 years ago
Museum Polin seems to be fully concentrated on the program entitled Estranged. March ’68 and Its Aftermath that addresses to the events that took place 25 years after the Warszawa Ghetto Uprising. Obcy - Estranged.
The biggest expulsion of Jews from Poland took place in 1946 in the aftermath of the Kielce pogrom. I use the verb expelled, for there is no big difference between forced emigration and expulsion. The next expulsion was in 1956, and the final expulsion was in 1968-1969. The number of Jews that left Poland in the final expulsion was 10 times smaller than the first one and about 1/3 of the 1956 expulsion.
It is likely that in the mid-1960s it was the start in the fighting down of quickly invented Jewish anti-Polish conspiracy. The Polish regime’s reaction started in the Polish Military, where numerous high-ranking officers and generals were removed from their positions. This movement continued in the half silence until the Six-Day War and thereafter more openly after the student demonstrations in March 1968.
The biggest expulsion of Jews from Poland took place in 1946 in the aftermath of the Kielce pogrom. I use the verb expelled, for there is no big difference between forced emigration and expulsion. The next expulsion was in 1956, and the final expulsion was in 1968-1969. The number of Jews that left Poland in the final expulsion was 10 times smaller than the first one and about 1/3 of the 1956 expulsion.
It is likely that in the mid-1960s it was the start in the fighting down of quickly invented Jewish anti-Polish conspiracy. The Polish regime’s reaction started in the Polish Military, where numerous high-ranking officers and generals were removed from their positions. This movement continued in the half silence until the Six-Day War and thereafter more openly after the student demonstrations in March 1968.
This newly invented Jewish anti-Polish conspiracy of the mid-1960s was, after June 1967, characterized by describing Polish Jews as a duplicitous minority, thus working in the interests of World Zionism. Duplicitous minority means Estranged, foreign, exactly what Polish Jews were called by party officials during the 60s, and it is what Museum Polin is also using. Pure, also governmental, antisemitism.
"Aliens" before WWII.
A statement by the later Primate of Poland, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński, then editor-in-chief of the theological journal Ateneum Kapłańskie. He wrote about 'aliens' in January 1938*:
It is difficult not to admit the correctness of Hitler's claims that the Jew has remained a foreign body in the organism of European nations. By proclaiming subversive ideas, standing at the head of the communist movement, spreading immoral slogans in literature...
The Jew fights against a culture foreign to his psyche, one that grew on the soil of Christianity...
Today's Third Reich has undertaken a titanic attempt to realize great ideas that are meant to bring about the rebirth of humanity...
Racism hides within itself certain healthy thoughts, which until now were known only to a narrow circle of doctors and biologists. Today the time has come for their rehabilitation.
Ateneum Kapłańskie, 1938, issue I, p. 23"*
