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From: "Jay and Diana" <>
Subject: RE: [POLAND] Book list excludes Poles (Holocaust Museum)
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 18:21:09 -0700
In-Reply-To: <9A9147C4-A1E0-11D7-9404-000393CDBD4C@cox.net>


Well, on the good side, there is at least one book regarding the Poles
in the book list on the museum site, but they certainly could do much
better! I noted that at least one of their volunteers is an ethnic Pole,
not Jewish. But in their definition of holocaust, Poles, homosexuals and
other "minorities" are certainly glossed over!

What most of the world seems to forget is that anyone who wasn't Aryan
(as defined by the Nazi regime, and not the mid-17th century Aryans) was
a potential target. This included 3,000,000 ethnic Poles, most of whom
were Catholic.

HOWEVER, I must make you aware of this page which is on the Holocaust
Learning Center pages on the museum website regarding the Warsaw
occupation, which does seem to do some justice to those Polish victims:

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?ModuleId=10005473


Diana Grzelak Needham

There is always a song for those who wish to sing.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Presenkowski [mailto:]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 4:00 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [POLAND] Book list excludes Poles (Holocaust Museum)
>
> Everyone should write (EMail) or call the Holocaust Museum and
complain
> about the Polish omission in the store.
> www.ushmm.org 202 488-0400
>
> Jim
>
>
> On Wednesday, June 18, 2003, at 01:44 PM, Debbie wrote:
>
> > Anettka,
> > Very possibly but I can only handle the Poles. ;)
> > Debbie
> >
> > wrote:
> >> And they probably forgot to include people from other Slavic lands,
> >> like the Czechs, Croats, Slovenes, Slovacks - all of whom suffered
in
> >> their hands...
> >> Anettka
> >>
> > The U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. has a bookstore which
> > sells many books about the many groups of people who were victimized
by
> > the Nazis - except the Poles! The books are about the Jews,
Jehovah's
> > Witnesses, homosexuals, but not the Polish people.
> >
> >
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> Jim Przedzienkowski
> San Diego, CA
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