The Guilt And Responsibility Of Poland During The Holocaust

The article by Blonski makes some harsh statements about the role of Poles during the Second World War and Holocaust. He claims that Poland has shared responsibility for the Holocaust and that the Poles were not the victims that they claimed to be. It is not that they did not suffer during the war but that victim was not their only identity. The guilt and responsibility of the Poles is that they were bystanders that could have done for to help the Polish Jews. This article is not about making people feel guilty but rather that Poland has a shared responsibility in the Holocaust because of their anti-Semitism and because they could have done more to resist. The Poles were anti-Semitic. This is opposite to the appearance of Poland as a welcoming state for all people. During the Middle Ages Jews were invited into Poland when they were being persecuted in other countries like Spain, England, and France. The core of the argument that Poland was
In the article it seems that Poland is a guilty bystander. Poles were guilty of inaction. To Blonski there was so much more that the Poles could have done and did not. The Poles could had embraced the Polish Jews and helped to hide them. But in the defense of the Poles, fear of backlash for resistance is an understandable reaction. But the argument by Blonski is not about claiming that they did not suffer and were not at all victims, but rather that victim is not their only identity and there is Polish responsibility. Jews were the primary targets to be sent to the concentration and extermination camps. It is the Polish relationship with the Jewish population that Blonski asserts is the reason that the effects of the Holocaust were so much greater in Poland. This indicates that there was something about Poland that allowed for this to