Page 14 News of Polonia Pasadena, California July 2007 Prof. Jerzy Robert Nowak from 1 Security Departments in enslaved . M. Wyrwich, “Murder in the Church”, patriotism, the , national One of the most prominent Jewish Solidarity Weekly 27 September 2002). heritage, and Polishness. These hundreds of most radical accusations of crimes of chauvinistic extremists, and a sleuth of Authors of secret underground texts about UB members of Jewish descent who were “Polish anti Semitism” towards the Jews, “Polish nationalism and anti Semitism” and political prisoners in Poland in the years devoid of any scruples in destroying nay, they seek the apparent connection of one most responsible for Stalin‟s crimes in 1945-1956 C. Leopold and K. Lechicki Polishness and Catholicism became more these crimes to Polish Christian roots. In this Poland was Jakub Berman, (responsible for wrote: “Proof of this felling of hate by the valuable for the Soviets. manner Gross‟s position is the most typical, an estimated 6,000 deaths and imprisonment bureaucrats of Jewish descent in the UB Testimonies against Gross’s lies by so fanatically attacking Poland and the of 500,000 Polish Nationals and clergy) who towards Polish Nationals was a statement by Catholic Church. Gross in his attempt to The exceptional gall with which Gross combined his responsibilities for Security in a major of the UB Wiktor Herrer, section attempts - even in spite of historical truths - erase the truth about the role played by the the Political Bureau of Central Committee chief in the Ministry of State Security, that Jewish communists in the UB, repeats this to minimize the very significant role of Jews of the Polish Workers‟ Party, and later he delivered with great passion: „Our goal is in the UB as well as in the total makeup of same but earlier invented concept that Central Committee of the Polish United to not only to destroy you physically, but we apparently if a Jew becomes a communist public life in the so called “Peoples Poland”, Workers‟ Party with his truly immense also must destroy you morally‟” (ref. C. forces us to gather a much greater number of then he somehow automatically renounces influence over the ideological and cultural Leopold, K. Lechicki, work cited, page 8). Judaism, and he ceases to be a Jew (page testimonies from a larger number of authors. spheres of life in Poland. (Berman, Bierut This anti-Polish attitude of “the red Testimonies on the same subject about 241), and then separate themselves from and Hilary Minc were Stalin‟s‟ triumvirate prosecutor” Helena Wolińska (Fajga their Judaic self, and even feel disdain which Gross writes… but so much different, that ruled Poland.) He pursued a very Mindela-Danielak - now alive and well in with very contrasting opinions. towards their Judaic heritage (page 242). consistent and unyielding fight against many Oxford U.K.) was well described by a court This is an old gimmick, publicized by First let‟s refer to the very eloquent aspects of Polish national heritage. He did recorder Zygmunt Maczyński in a broadcast evaluation of an émigré from 1968, former among others by Jan Józef Lipski, who back all this according to his own rule, that “any program of TVP (Polish T.V.): “Lena in 1981 came out with a similar attempt to officer in the Polish Army Intelligence, flirtation with Polish nationalistic feelings” Wolińska was especially brutal towards the Michał Checiński of Jewish descent. This excuse Jews from their responsibility in the will lead to “the release of bad Polish members of AK, she hated more than role they played in the UB or in the overall author, with expert hands-on knowledge of ghosts” including anti-Semitism (ref. book she hated Germans” (Special investigation the situation in Poland after 1944, writes building of a Jewish totalitarian base. In his by a philosopher Andrzej Walicki, who in “Procurator in a red skirt” presented TVP I, address to the University of Warszawa in explicitly about the exploitation of Jewish other instances was very friendly with our January 11, 1999). In this context it should communists by the Soviets in the drive to March 1968, Lipski stated that “ book titled “Imprisoned mind of years ago” be referred to a little known letter of a well means the departure from the Jewish subdue Poland. In the beginning of his book Warszawa 1993, page 329). It was Berman known doctor of Jewish descent Ludwik Checiński turns our attention to a very religion and in the same way the separation who was the first (in 1944) to publicly Hirszfeld (Polish microbiologist/serologist from the Jewish nation.” How very specific condition that favored the accuse the AK () of alleged co-discoverer of “inheritance of ABO blood promotion of Jewish communists from the simplistic is this explanation! Therefore a cooperation with the Gestapo and called type” converted to Catholicism) to Jerzy Jew who was a member of the UB, members of Poland‟s schools during the members of the AK, “bandits.” He Borejsza, dated 27 of October 1947. In this years 1942-1944: “KGB officers, engaged in executioner or tormentor was not a Jew, coordinated the preparation of hundreds of letter he deplored that: “the Jewish because to be a Jew is to be a Jew practicing the instruction and indoctrination of Polish political trials, persecution of many nationalists hate Poles more than they hate students, very frequently favored Jews, the faith of Moses. This type of explanation thousands from the Home Army rank and Germans and knowingly or not, they was told by Jan Józef Lipski, a mason. This considering them as being less liable to file, Peasants Battalions, National Armed advance towards a pro German belief just as succumb to being swayed by Polish national is total nonsense, and how contrary to the Forces, and a relentless systematic fight I predicted in my book. I do not stress these entrenched by thousands of years of practice or anti-Russian feelings” (M. Checiński, against the Church. He frequently observations publicly because I do not want “Poland, Communism, Nationalism, Anti- of this exceptional to Jews national Jewish admonished the directors of the departments to hurt Jews and spread the abyss that the identity, that other nations can envy them. It Semitism”. New York 1982, page 11). in the Ministry of Public Security, that they Jewish nationals are creating between Jews Further on in the book (page 63) is worthwhile to mention if only in this do not appreciate “the role of the clergy in and Poles” (cited from B. Fijalkowska, context, a statement of one of the famous Checiński stressed: “National minorities the sabotage against our Party.” He was Borejsza and Rozański. “Causes of the such as Jews, Ukrainians and Byelorussians Jewish thinkers of the 20th century, Lord known for his ruthlessness and cruelty Stalinist rule in Poland”, Olsztyn 1996, page Isaiah Berlin: “I am a Jew simply because in Poland played a very pronounced role in towards political prisoners. Well 139). One other example… Colonel the brutal action by the Polish Secret Police you cannot stop being a Jew” (an interview remembered is Berman‟s saying to the Mateusz Frydman insulted a prisoner that he by A. Michnik with sir I. Berlin, Gazeta to quash the native Poles. Jews, especially pardoned prisoners, who later apparently was beating with these words: “By what those with Jewish names or with Wyborcza 12-13 August 1995). perished due to a death by “suicide” (This right do you Poles strive for an independent Polish writers of Jewish descent, Feliks pronounced Jewish features, would be statement-death by suicide is a cynical way Poland?” (ref: “Three documents detailing placed in the most controversial offices (for Mantel, Leopold Tyrmand, Stanisław of explaining the “murders” committed by the mechanics of the violence and coercion Krajewski, Andrzej Wróblewski, and example, offices responsible for Church UB which were publicized as “suicide”). in the years 1945-1947” Parisian Historical affairs or a campaign against the political Oswald Rufeisen and Stanisław Aronson “Comrade Bierut has pardoned you, but I Notebooks 1984, No. 47, page 55). from Israel have written, that in spite of underground) enabling them to alter the will not pardon you” (“Victims Another aim of these especially hateful Polish anti-regime feelings into anti-Semitic many grotesque whitewashings of Jews Remembrance”, Solidarity Weekly, March attacks by the Jewish UB and Political torturing Poles in prisons or condemning feelings. Such political maneuvering was 14, 2003). Berman with great commitment Bureau members was their fight with the applied in all of Eastern Europe where the others to death, Jewish communists never opposed all attempts to introduce policies Catholic Church because of their atheistic ceased to be Jewish chauvinists, or to harass new governments ruled. Thanks to the that would take into account national values animosity towards the last and the only backing of the Soviet army they were Poles because of some extreme national in the policies of PPR (Polish Workers‟ barricade defending Polish Nationalism. hatred towards Poles. considered as puppets by the subjugated Party), and he very definitely opposed these Stuck forever in my mind is this example of people.” Checiński again stresses this in The testimony by Feliks Mantel was very type of tendencies in the activities of a symptomatic and dreary fight, as told in eloquently written regarding the lies of Jews (cited work, page 64), that the Jews in the Władysław Gomulka. He was part of the the collection of memorials “Poles in UB appeared to: “less likely to succumb to in the UB as being non-Jews. He simply group that carried on a trail of Gomulka‟s Russia” by Józef Brancewicz from writes that the Jewish factor of Jewish the enticement of Polish nationalism, from policies, attacking them as “a dangerous Białystok. In his entry dated January 16, which it seemed even the most revenge was concentrated in the UB. Mantel sway towards the national right” in Poland. 1945 he wrote that he was arrested for was one of the most impartial of the Jewish unimpeachable Polish communists were not He led a very intensive policy of belonging to the AK and in a town of Świra free”. In this context it is now apparent that writers when writing about the Polish- Sovietization and Russification of Polish he was handed over to the local militia Jewish relations because he himself it was not by chance that Stalin chose to bet culture, and he strived to totally exterminate which was comprised of at least 50% Jews. on Jewish communists in Poland against observed the birth of the communist the “Polish National Catholic” way of There came about this rather sickening government in Poland and therefore a very Gomulka in 1948. Checiński in his writing thinking. incident. Józef Brancewicz recalls: “I (work cited, page 64) pointed out that Jews valuable witness. He was the State A very notorious deputy director of the recognized in this militia unit a friend from Undersecretary of the PKWN (Polish returning to Poland were stripped of their Interrogation Department of the Ministry of elementary school. He approached me, and belongings and lost their families: “Their Committee of National Liberation) in the Public Security, Józef Światło (Fleischfarb) hit me few times in the face, and tore off my Provisional Government and also in the loyalty would be to the people, who not only personally tortured a number of Polish neck a chain with the medallion of Our Lady gave them valuable material privileges and Government of National Unity, and later he patriots, and was especially cruel during the of Ostrobrama and stepped on it.” There was an official representative of the so gains, but also an opportunity to have interrogations of activists from the defunct were other more drastic incidents - revenge on every one, whom they suspected called “Peoples Poland” and plenipotentiary National Party. He used to say, while numerous displays of unhindered terror minister of Poland in Vienna. He very early that was co-responsible for the catastrophes, torturing his victims until they fainted: against Catholic thought and the Catholic that befell their families”. in his career recognized the criminal drive “Now you will remember what it means to clergy: Instances of Clergymen sentenced to of the communist system and did not have Here let us also quote some valuable be anti-Semitic.” It was a well known fact death, defamation and imprisonment of statements from another author of Jewish any desire to develop his career in this that one of the victims that was interrogated bishops and even the Primate of the system. In 1948 he chose freedom and descent, Stanisław Krajewski, one of the said: “With us our anti-Semitism did not Millennium. (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński leading representatives of the Jewish remained in the West. apply torture as does your anti- was imprisoned 25 September, 1953 in In his book about the relations of Poles minority in today‟s Poland, and co-chair of Polonism” (ref. C. Lechocki, “Political Grudziać, and later in a monastery at the Christian and Jews Council. In his text and Jews Mantel writes most negatively Prisoners in Poland” in 1945-1956, Prudnik until October 26, 1956. Wyszyński exactly about this influential group of Jews, published under his pen name Abel Kainer underground publication, Gdańsk 1981, was called the Primate of the Millennium in the KOR (Workers‟ Defense Committee) who “think in Jewish concepts, in spite of page 15). because during his reign as Primate, Poland admitting affiliation to Polish communism. underground publication Krytyka, Krajewski Roman Romkowski (Natan Grunspan- in 1966 observed 1000 years of among others wrote: The “majority of Jews They have not found a balance between Kikiel), Światło‟s superior, in his testimony Christianity.) All of this was under the being Polish and their Jewish origins. They remaining in Poland accepted the „building given on October 10, 1954 stated, that leadership of the most ferocious enemy of of ‟. Majority of non-Jews did not are the revenge seeking people, Światło in various situations displayed ever the Church in the Ministry of Public congregating mainly in the Security agree with it. However great is this so stronger tendencies to react in a Security – the famous Luna Brystygier, disproportion, it is mainly because, the Departments, who want to exploit the nationalistic-Jewish manner to some director of Department “V" of the MBP communist doctrine to uproot and eliminate Jewish community had a particular personal challenges (ref. S. Marat, J. (Ministry of Public Security). In light of characteristic: those who were “anti- the active anti Semitism.” (F. Mantel, Snopkiewicz, “People of the Security”, these facts, how valid are these different “Polish-Jewish Relations”, Paris 1986, page communists did not stay with it. They Warszawa 1990, page 15). opinions of Gross? As if the Jewishness of emigrated (...)” (ref text A. Kainer: “Jews 13). Therefore they are not some sort of Another from the select group of various bureaucrats in the UB and their communists who shed their Jewishness as and Communists”, from Krytyka 1983, nr. conductors of the UB terror, director of the great numbers had no influence at all. If the 15, page 194). Let‟s compare these was suggested by Lipski or Gross, but rather Interrogation Department, Anatol Fejgin, Jews were not there the Poles would do “revenge seekers”, whose Jewish observations made by Kainer (Krajewski) son of Moses, well known for numerous exactly the same as the Jews have done. (ref. with the impudent lies of Gross (page 221), nationalistic feelings helped them to denunciations on “Polish Nationals” even as “Fear”, page 230-236). intensify their brutal chauvinistic actions as if the pro communist sympathizers among early as during the Lwów era of 1939-1941 Here Gross totally avoids this very the Jews in Poland “were very few”. A. towards Poles whom they imprisoned. I will he was known to frequently say in the important meaning of the impact of anti- quote some definite examples of this Kainer goes on to say: “... In practice, the company of his party colleagues, “We must Polonism by leading Jews in Security. This reality of reforms was reborn as criminal revenge towards Poles by the kill this Polish pride, and shoot down their Jewish anti-Polonism was Stalin‟s very leading Jewish communists who were patriotism” (according to texts by efficient tool in his war against Polish Prof. Jerzy Robert Nowak to page 15 responsible for the Administration of