Unequal victims: Poles and Jews during World War II

Takes a close look at the Polish-Jewish relationship during the Holocaust era. Although some acts of assistance are mentioned, the book concludes that in general the Slavic Poles often did nothing to help, or took advantage of the situation for gain, or even committed murder or other crimes against the Jews. Leaders of the Home Army and the exile government both receive criticism, and the writers speak of a prewar atmosphere of antisemitism as a negative precursor to all that followed. Some of the examples given include: not using the underground partisans to attack death-camp deportation trains, not offering substantive weapons support to ghetto fighters, looting abandoned Jewish property, encouraging Jewish members of the Polish Second Corps, to desert while moving through Palestine and perpetrating the 1946 Kielce Pogrom. Primary material from the Sikorski Institute in London and the Polish Worker's Party files are cited