Have Poles blood on their hands? :)

The thing is that no one prevents us from doing what Jews do - meaning to push our causes. They do and we don't.

The thing is that no one prevents us from doing what Jews do - meaning to push our causes. They do and we don't. It is similar to American blacks complaining that Korean immigrants own all the stores in black neighborhoods. I say to them: open your own.

At the time I did not know about Auschwitz and the smoke above Birkenau, but if I had known and somebody asked me I would have answered without hesitation - Kolyma. In exchange of view we would have asked one another:

What could be worse than death in crowded gas chambers and the dehumanizing disposal of bodies in fiery crematorium?

What could be worse than prolonged suffering from cold, hunger and disease before the body gives in to the white icy crematorium?

It's not the point that Jews play up their suffering, but that we fail to do the same

I would settle for basic awareness of the crime that communism was. Schools do not do a good job of that.

Easy_Terran:
Rest of the dumb, goy sh!ts who were murdered in waaaay greater number than the Jews - feck it, collateral damage.
Right?
The thing is that no one prevents us from doing what Jews do - meaning to push our causes. They do and we don't. It is similar to American blacks complaining that Korean immigrants own all the stores in black neighborhoods. I say to them: open your own.

but I just don't see the same effort from the Catholics that I see from the Jews.

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He spends most of his time either observing and talking with Abe Foxman, veteran head of the US Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the largest Jewish organisation combating antisemitism worldwide, or accompanying a group of Israeli senior high school students who go on the March of the Living, a trip to the death camps in Poland made each year by 30,000 youngsters.

The ADL sees antisemitism rising everywhere. From Foxman, Shamir learns that the only answer is to stamp on it hard by playing on feelings of guilt about the Holocaust. Heavy-handed and exaggerated? Privately, even some senior ADL lay supporters think so. And when Shamir tries to explore what the rise in antisemitism consists of, he finds it rather elusive. Foxman and ADL officials tell him there's been a spike in US antisemitic incidents, which are now running at 1,500 a year, but when he asks them to identify a recent local one, where the physical evidence could be filmed, most appear to be very minor.

He also learns that the Israeli students are indoctrinated with an exaggerated sense of the danger of antisemitism in Poland. "We're raised to know that people hate us," says one. Another wants to absorb the mantra he hears from his parents: "Never forgive, never forget." Before they leave for Poland they are briefed: "You will not have contact with the local people," it's too dangerous.

Shamir shows us that the threat of another Holocaust looms large both for the wealthy, elderly ADL supporters who go on international missions with Foxman and for the Israeli high school students. The former stand at Babi Yar in Kiev, where tens of thousands of Jews were massacred in 1941, and one woman says: "The worst thing standing here is that it could happen again today." The students go to Auschwitz and believe the Israeli secret serviceman who tells them they're in "hostile country" and can't go out from their hotel in the evening because neo-Nazis will attack them.

The ADL works very closely with the Israeli government in spreading the notion that the "new antisemitism" – extreme and unfair hostility to Israel – is the principal danger today.
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My point is - how many people have even heard of Kolyma

Bratwurst Boy, I have to keep running off because I have children

Catholics or Poles or everybody else non-Jew just isn't in the same still threatened position as Israel...they say...so rising and keeping up the awareness about the jewish holocaust is a means to secure the future of the jewish homeland.
No Pole nor other victim of WWII shares the same position...some say..

Catholics should finally acknowledge that without independent education system (including at home) their values and views wont preserve.

Even then...one day they WILL leave home and that special schools and have to face reality! ;)

Even my dog don't deserve to be send to public school. :)

.some of them just stink! :(

think that these anti-Poland slurs by Foxman

I would settle for basic awareness of the crime that communism was. Schools do not do a good job of that.

Won't a public airing of that period make a lot of people in Poland uncomfortable?

but could that be because there were many Poles in the Polish communist party and they still have influence on how history is taught?

Won't a public airing of that period make a lot of people in Poland uncomfortable?

Holocaust education helps us understand that the return to anything called the Right would be the return to...Nazism, and we know how that ended.(sarcasm).

This knowledge is essential for understanding the nature of hatred, prejudice, and tolerance,

That's what Nazism was about, but Communism was an evil of its own nature and it should be recognized for what it really was – a utopian scheme gone mad, because it was hijacked by vicious, power-hungry people and blood-thirsty tyrants. People should be educated to be very careful of movements that claim to want to liberate the common man, because they can end up enslaving the common man. Communists enslaved their own people just as much as other nations, so it's not about prejudice and tolerance. Communism and Nazism were two different diseases and it's important to diagnose each one accurately. A wrong diagnosis can fail to prevent an outbreak.

Communism - a good idea gone bad hence not so bad
Nazism - bad! bad! bad from the onset"

Maybe that is the reason why Nazism is seen as more dangerous, more hateful, the holocaust worse than everything else

That´s why Nazism is generally seem as something worse than communism. Even though many more people have been victims of communism, the racist side of Nazism is what vilifies it.

Well...at that time racism was well entrenched in the people and even the governments of the world.
It wasn't something the Nazis invented...race segregation and Euthanasia for example was common in the US...anti-semitism also.
Seeing how Churchill justified the british murder of kurds or the belgian genocide in the Congo speaks a different language.

Your reasoning is an easy way out but doubtful!

Have Poles blood on their hands?

The difference is that Churchill isn´t hailed as a Racist leader...well, by some, yes.

that's exactly the reasoning I as a German have problems with:

Communism - a good idea gone bad hence not so bad
Nazism - bad! bad! bad from the onset"