Dirk diggler
30 Sep 2017 #61
@Lyzko
The vast majority of Poles didn't kill or harm Jews but rather helped them. There were perhaps 1 or 2 known incidents in some backwater rural area where the locals rose up against the Jews - that's it. Most Poles either helped the Jews or were neutral and prefer not to get involved since then they too would be killed. During WW2, Poles were generally known to help the Jews, not hurt them. Poland had the most Jews of any European country at the time yet the least amount of pogroms committed by locals. When you compare the pogroms and violence against Jews in places like Russia (where Jews were referred to as 'rootless cosmopolitans'), Hungary, Ukraine, etc committed by the locals to Poland it doesn't even compare even though Poland had the most Jews out of any European country.
What did occur is Poles would take over peoples' homes and belongings when they would be sent to the camps, many of whom were Jewish as roughly half the deaths in the concentration camps were Jews. Although that happened not because Poles were against Jews as they did this to anyone who was thought to be dead or missing.