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| Lodz, Poland, 1948, A Hanukkah celebration at the Coordination Committee Orphanage. All the children in the orphanage had been hidden by non-Jewish families during the war Source |
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| Fuerstenfeldbruck, Germany, 1945, Celebrations of the first Hanukkah after liberation, in the DP camp Source |
Yes I know it's not Hanukkah, but I find both of these photos very moving for different reasons, and I've been wanting to post them for a while.
Bieganski the Blog exists to further explore the themes of the book Bieganski the Brute Polak Stereotype, Its Role in Polish-Jewish Relations and American Popular Culture.
These themes include the false and damaging stereotype of Poles as brutes who are uniquely hateful and responsible for atrocity, and this stereotype's use in distorting WW II history and all accounts of atrocity.
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The problem of rights of children may be complicated. Recovering of children may hurt, both children and foster parents. Many Polish children were kidnapped by Germans and later reurned to their biological, extremely poor families, they were not always happy there. Professor Marcin Zaremba has researched Poland shortly after the war. Jewish organisations recovered children from Polish families, sometimes orphans. I do not know accounts of the Jewish children, but many Poles did not accept the recovery and believed some conspiracy theories. I hope that the children were really happy. Has someone interviewed them?
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