I can see you're being downvoted by both sides already. I think the crux of the issue is scale. When people make sweeping statements like "Poles were helping J

I can see you're being downvoted by both sides already. I think the crux of the issue is scale. When people make sweeping statements like "Poles were helping Jews" and "Poles were giving Jews away to the Nazi", technically they are both true, but it really makes the difference how many people were in each group. The thing is, memories are passed down in a different way. Every Polish family knows someone who helped the Jews during the war. Poles are also the most represented group among the Righteous Among the Nations which is statistically obvious since Jews had the largest population there (for good reasons). But when you pass on your memories, you don't mention anything wrong you might have done during the war. Polish is the only language that has the word "szmalcownik"[0]. This means that these people existed. It is impossible to estimated them, but we know they were there, and that people hated them. So practically speaking you can make an infinite number of arguments on both sides, finding more and more actual cases, and never finish. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szmalcownik https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szmalcownik