When somebody hears "holocaust" the first thing that comes to their mind is the killing of Jews in Poland and that Poles did not do anything to help Jewish people. It is not true, because "not just Poles and Jews, but Poland's Germans, Ukrainians, Lithuanians, Byelorussians, Tartars, Gypsies, Catholic, Orthodox, Uniate, Protestant, Judaic and Moslem were all to pass through the mills of Hitler's and Stalin's human engineering" (Lukas, p ix), and many Polish people risked their lives to save Jews. Also, there were many other great crimes and murders, such as the killing of the Armenians by the Turks or murders of Russians by Stalin, but the Holocaust stood out as the "only sysmatic and organized effort by a modern government to destroy a whole race of people."(Seymor) The Germans under Adolf Hitler believed that the Jews were the cause of all Germans troubles and were a threat to the Germans and Chris

Before the start of the World War II, the Jews of Germany were excluded from public life, forbidden to have sexual relations with non-Jews, boycotted, beaten but allowed to emigrate. When the war was officially declared, emigration ended and "the final solution" to the Jewish problem came. When Germany took over Poland on September 1, 1939, the Polish and German Jews were forced into overcrowded Ghettos and employed as slave labor. "The war in Poland was not conventional war that is war against Polish government and its armies, but a war against Polish people and destruction of Polish population." (Lukas) The Nazis jailed and executed intellectuals and priest, closed all schools, churches and forbade Poles from holding professional positions. 3.3 million Jews lived in Poland and as Hitler promised to his people that no person of Jewish background would survive and he started murdering innocent people.

Following the defeat of the Germans in the World War I, the Treaty of Versailles and the United Nations resolutions against Germany raised many militaristic voices and formed extreme nationalism. Hitler took advantage of the situation and rose to power in 1933 on a promise to destroy the Treaty of Versailles that stripped Germany off land. Hitler organized the Gestapo as the only executive branch and secret terror organization of the Nazi police system. In 1935, he made the Nuremberg Laws that forbid Germans to marry Jews or commerce with them. Hitler thought that the Jews were a nationless parasite and were directly related to the Treaty of Versailles. When Hitler began his move to conquer Europe, he promised that no person of Jewish background would survive.

When Jewish people saw that many Poles want to help them, they

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