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You may be surprised to learn that if you go to the garden of the Yad Vashem institute the trees there have tags with names of Poles. Each tree is planted for t
by surfingdino 2y ago
You may be surprised to learn that if you go to the garden of the Yad Vashem institute the trees there have tags with names of Poles. Each tree is planted for the person who saved Jews during the Holocaust. Here are the statistics https://www.yadvashem.org/righteous/statistics.html https://www.yadvashem.org/righteous/statistics.html Those numbers do not only matter as statistics, there was a law in place in occupied Poland that allowed the whole family to be sentenced to death if one of the members was caught helping Jews. Herr Schindler was not the only person who was saving Jews.
- ido 2y agoMy grandfather was talking about his childhood, before WW2. And I’m not at all surprised to know there are many Poles that saved Jews in WW2 - there are also a lot of Germans! I’m sure individually a lot of Poles were and are fine people. But at least according to my late grandfather it sounded like it was pretty common to experience anti-semitism as well (my grandfather grew up in an ultra orthodox family so was easily identified on the street as Jewish - he became secular during the war).