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Please visit our EBAY STORE at the link directly below for HUNDREDS of HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS on sale or at auction: /Steve-Goldman-HISTORICAL-NEWSPAPERS_W0QQsspagenameZL2222QQtZkm SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE ORIGINAL newspaper, the Detroit Jewish News (MI) dated April 23, 1943. Extraordinarily detailed coverage of the HOLOCAUST against the Jews of Europe by the Nazis, news that was often times ignored by the mainstream press. This has front page news heading that only 10% of the Jews originally living in Poland are still alive after the Nazis took over Poland. Persecution of the Jews by the German Nazi occupation government, particularly in the urban areas, began immediately after the occupation. In the first year and a half, however, the Germans confined themselves to stripping the Jews of their property and herding them into ghettoes and putting them into forced labor in war-related industries. During this period the Jewish community leadership, the Judenrat , which, unlike Polish authorities, had an official recognition by the Germans, was able to some extent to bargain with the Germans. After the German attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941, special extermination squads (the Einsatzgruppen ) were organized to kill Jews in the areas of eastern Poland which had been annexed by the Soviets in 1939. At the Wannsee conference near Berlin on 20 January 1942 , Dr Josef Bühler urged Reinhard Heydrich to begin the proposed "final solution to the Jewish question" in the General Government. Accordingly, in 1942 the Germans began the systematic killing of the Jews, beginning with the Jewish population of the General Government. Six extermination camps ( Auschwitz , Belzec , CheÅ,mno , Majdanek , Sobibór and Treblinka ) were established in which the most extreme measure of the Holocaust , the mass murder of millions of Jews from Poland and other countries, was carried out between 1942 and 1944. Of Poland's prewar Jewish population of 3 million, only about 50,000 survived the war. The role played by Poles in these events has been the subject of considerable debate. Since the fall of Communism in Poland, it has become possible to debate this issue openly, and Polish political parties, the Catholic Church, and Jewish organisations both inside and outside Poland have contributed. Before the war t were 3 million Jews in Poland, about 10% of the population. Poland was a deeply Catholic country and the presence of this large non-Christian minority had always been a source of tension, and periodically of violence between Poles and Jews. T was both official and popular anti-Semitism in Poland before the war, at times encouraged by the Catholic Church and by some political parties, but not directly by the government. T were also political forces in Poland which opposed anti-Semitism, but in the later 1930s reactionary and anti-Semitic forces had gained ground. In some cases, the Germans were clearly able to exploit this anti-Jewish sentiment. Some Poles betrayed hidden Jews to the Germans, and others made their living as "Jew-hunters" ( szmalcownik ), although many others hid Jews rather than collaborate in their destruction. Anti-Semitism was particularly strong in the eastern areas which had been occupied by the Soviet Union from 1939 to 1941. the local population accused the Jews of having collaborated with the Soviets, and also alleged that Jewish Communists had been prominent in the repressions and deportations of Catholic Poles of that period, leading to acts of vengeance that, on occasion resulted in innocents being targeted. A few German-inspired massacres were carried out with help from, or even active participation by, Poles themselves. For example, the massacre in Jedwabne , in which between 300 ( Institute of National Remembrance's Final Findings) and 1,600 ( Jan T. Gross ) Jews were tortured and beaten to death by some of Jedwabne's citizens. The full extent of Polish participation in the massacres of the Polish Jewish community...
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