Understanding of the Polish Underground’s wartime record was overwhelmingly negative. Holocaust survivor testimony and scholarly studies argued that partisans of the Home Army — those clandestine forces in Nazi-occupied Poland loyal to the Polish government-in-exile — were just as dangerous to Jews as were the Nazis. And the specific cases on which these claims were made were no doubt accurate.
New research, however, demonstrates there was another side to the story. In my book, “The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939-1945,” I show that — alongside documented cases of crimes against the Jews — individuals and groups within the Polish Underground …read more
Source: European Voice
