W zwiazku ze swoja agenturalna dzialalnoscia oraz donosicielstwem, ktore na
liscie Prawica rozpracowal pan Blaszczak, i bez ktorego nie moge sie obyc
wyjasniam, ze wczesniej postanowilem napisac jeszcze jeden donos. Z tym, ze tym
razem moim adresatem i mocodawca jest ksiegarnia wysylkowa AMAZON gdzie mozna
nabyc falszerstwa Jana T. Grossa. Jezeli ktos z Panstwa mogl by sie tam wpisac
aby "zachecic" zachecic Amerkanow do kupowania tej ksiazki to bardzo prosze tez
cos tam na ten temat napisac.
Janusz J. - donosiciel z zamilowania
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Collection of lies, April 22, 2001
Reviewer: Janusz Januszewski from Lawrence Ma USA
Besides it being a collection of lies, the book "Neighbors" by Jan T. Gross is
disparaging to the memory of those who were murdered.
According to J.T. Gross, Jerzy Laudanski was one of the leaders of the Jedwabne
massacre. For example, the author of "Neighbors" writes in detail about the
trial of more than 20 inhabitants of Jedwabne in the Stalinist era, without
stopping, even for a moment, to analyze its legality or the trustworthiness of
the defendants' depositions recorded by the Lomza agents of the Security Office
[UB]. One of the main defendants in the short trial of 1949, who was then
sentenced to 15 years in prison, was a young man found guilty not of the
participation in the murder of Jewish citizens, but of collaboration with the
Nazi occupiers. After spending almost 8 years behind bars, this prisoner
received an early release shortly after the "thaw" in October 1956. Jan T.
Gross writes about him: "(...) one of the younger, because he was only 19 at
that time, but also the most brutal participants in these events", "a cretinous
bandit", who "...together with Wisniewski and Kalinowski stoned in turn Lewin
and Zdrojewicz"; and even that "...two of them - Jerzy Laudanski and Karol
Bardon - became later the Schutzmanner in the German gendarmerie".
Jerzy Laudanski, born in 1922, comes from one of the most respected Polish
families in Jedwabne. He is still alive, just like his two elder brothers,
Kazimierz and Zygmunt.
Dr. Adam Cyra (employee of the State Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau) recorded
extensive testimony of Mr. Jerzy Laudanski, who was ex-member of ZWZ/AK [Home
Army] and a former political prisoner of KL Auschwitz (he was brought there
from the Pawiak prison in Warsaw on September 15, 1942 and received the serial
number 63805). Later, he was also imprisoned in KL
Gross-Rosen and KL Sachsenhausen. Since Jerzy Laudanski was a prisoner of
various concentration camps, how could he have been a soldier in Germany
military police (genderamerie)???
I would also like to add that in the Archives of the State Museum of
Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim there is preserved an official camp photograph
of Mr. Jerzy Laudanski. Therefore, there is convincing evidence of Jerzy
Laudanski being a prisoner of the concentration camp.
The picture painted in "Neighbors" is truly unsettling. It seems that the Poles
are Nazi collaborators who sign an agreement with the Germans regarding the
murder of Jews. The Germans want to save a few Jews but the Poles disagree and
in a beastial way murder almost all their Jewish neighbors. And, generally
speaking, the only place to provide shelter for the Jews against the
bloodthirsty Polish mob - according to Gross - was the Nazi gendarmerie post.
In fact, there should be no question about the
criminal nature of Poles, since their spiritual guidance was in the hands of
Catholic priests. Gross mentions only two of them, but they are both common
criminals.
Archaeologists from UMK and specialists from the Torun's "Geophysics" have
localized the mass grave of the Jewish population in Jedwabne. Now it is
precisely known that on the 10.07.1941 the Jews from Jedwabne were burned in a
barn and then buried next to it.
On the old monuments was the information that on the 10.07.1941, 1600 people
died in Jedwabne.
Prof. Kola from the UMK Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology doesn't have any
doubts that the grave can contain a maximum of 300 bodies. Would that mean that
there could be some more graves in the close vicinity?
In the opinion of Prof. Kola it is not very likely. All witnesses indicate that
there was only one burial place.
Prof. Andrzej Kola said:
"It is very regrettable that the Jewish side doesn't agree to the exhumation.
In a week's time, we would be able to verify what the people are saying and
what the author of "Neighbours" has written. This could serve as a good lesson
for the future. Many times I've found that the verbal testimonies of the
witnesses have to be treated as not very reliable historical sources".
Many facts described by Gross can be considered dubious. In other cases, in
which a cautious approach would be most advisable, the author of "Neighbors"
uses presumptuously the words "probably" and "must have". Some of his
statements seem to be just an outflow of ignorance or prejudice mixed up with a
swarm of shallow stereotypes.
Janusz Januszewski
Lawrence, Ma. USA
