The Jews in Poland during the First Weeks of German Occupation

Fair, factual video. It could be added that aside of being victims, the Polish Jews were also soldiers in the Polish army and Polish government on exile supported and cooperated with Jewish resistance units made of the former soldiers and officers of the Polish army, for example in the Warsaw ghetto. The Polish government and the secret state also investigated ghettos, camps and delivered first hand reports about the holocaust and mistreatment of the Polish Jews basically from the beginning of the occupation. Greetings from Warsaw.

May their souls rest in peace.

This is why government should be governed by the people and not politicians ✌️

Thank you, this was very informative...peace and respect always...

Yad Vashem Foundation, good morning! Congratulations on your exceptional work in preserving the memory of the Holocaust. This work has to last, so that such an atrocity never happens again. I ASK YOU TO TRANSLATE THE VIDEOS SO THAT MORE PEOPLE CAN APPRECIATE YOUR WORK IN MEMORY OF FUTURE GENERATIONS. TRANSLATE AT LEAST IN SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE! GOD BLESS YOU!

No. Polish gov.went first to Romania

There is a wonderful book written by the son of a couple who lived through this terrible time. It is "Until We Meet Again" by Michael Korenblit. Well worth the read.

Watch this and learn. It can happen again. Fight hate everywhere.

Thank you for posting this video! I'd like to request your permission to translate it into Russian.

It wasn't any better in East Poland, which was renamed West Ukraine.

Humanity at it's Upmost Worst....I pray for you all and only wish the power of love to one day Heal ❤️🙏

Never again

Why is it, when I watch this, or any video on WW2 era Poland for that matter, I get links to literally hundreds of videos and commentary about the abuses against Poles by the Germans, yet there is almost nothing on the barbaric and murderous treatment of the Poles at the same time by the Soviets, often under the orders of Jewish NKVD officers? Other than a few documentaries on the Katyn Forest massacre, it's almost like Eastern Poland didn't exist until the 1941 invasion in the realm of historical documentaries and video shorts. I've had quite a few Polish folks recount the stories of their parents and grandparents that when they were looking to flee Poland in 1939-1940, they always decided to go west towards the Germans. Not that they had any love for the Germans or delusions about how they'd be treated, but they figured if they were caught by the Germans, they had a much better chance of staying alive then if they fled East and were caught by the Soviets. Obviously Polish Jews had a different take, but it still seems odd that the invasions of Poland and even Finland by the Soviets in 1939 seems to get forgotten simply because they ended up fighting the Germans in 1941.

Why dont you translate these holocausts issue into the other languages s that people whatever origin knows what has happened to 6 million jews

By 1941 and 1942 there were over 2 million Jewish people in the General Government of Poland. By 1943 the vast majority of them of about 1.8 million had been killed either in the extermination camps of Sobibor, Treblinka, Belzec, and Majadanek, killed in Operation Ertenfest or shot to death by the Einsgruptin in Operation Reinhard one of the deadliest periods of the Holocaust in which over 2 million Jewish people were killed either in Sobibor, Treblinka, Belzec, or Majadanek, in Operation Ertenfest, or shot to death by the Einsgruptin. At its peak over a 100 day period in 1942 between 1.5 to 1.6 million Jewish people in the General Goverment of Poland were killed with 1.3 million of them being killed in the extermination camps of Sobibor, Treblinka, Belzec, and Majadanek with 100.000 people being killed in Sobibor, 700.000 people being killed in Treblinka, 500.000 people being killed in Belzec, and 24.000 people being killed in Majadanek with another 300.000 people being shot by the Einsgruptin. After that the killings slowed as there were very few Jewish people left in the General Government with between only 400.000 and 500.000 of them left but they didn’t stop. By 1943 at the official end of Operation Reinhard 200.000 more of them were killed mainly in Sobibor, Treblinka, Majadanek, and Operation Ertenfest thus leaving only between 200.000 and 300.000 of them left in the General Government meaning that Operation Reinhard had mostly succeeded in its plan of killing all Jewish people in the General Government as they had killed the vast majority of them at about 1.8 million deaths leaving only between 200.000 and 300.000 people left in the General Government.

How Awful. How Sad. I can Picture My Mother, My Father, My Sisters and My Brothers ALL humiliated, degraded and devalued in Their Own Land. May God Forgive The Cruelty Of Man to His Fellow Man. The Jews Are God's Chosen People.

No. Generalna Gubernia doesn't mean General government.

Polish Jews are wonderful. My condolences to those lost in the Holocaust

Polish Jews were very beautiful , noble, and attractive People .

It's happening now to people in Gaza