A WITNESS TO THE HOLOCAUST
A WITNESS TO THE HOLOCAUST KARSKI IN THE GHETTO

KARSKI IN A CAMP

TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE WORST TRAGEDIES

It is well known, that wherever there is war, hyenas emerge. They are circling around the peripheries of the fighting between the Polish Nation and the German invader that has been going on for four years. […]

This last year has brought about a new kind of war hyenas. Pursued by the Germans, they are exploiting the Jews in hiding by extortions and blackmailing. A great majority of the morally healthy, Christian-minded Polish society has looked and looks with disgust at the crimes perpetrated by the German torturers on the Jews, and is treating these victims with compassion. But there are depraved individuals - unfortunately often wearing police uniforms – who do not hesitate to use the tragic fate of the Jews, hunted and instigated by the Germans, in order to blackmail and coerce them for large ransoms. The blackmailers have no honor or conscience and they are just a step away from those – fortunately few – criminals who do not hesitate to put the hunted Jews into German hands.

SOURCE: RZECZPOSPOLITA POLSKA, No. 8, May 6 1943, IN: TEN JEST Z OJCZYZNY MOJEJ [THIS ONE IS FROM MY HOMELAND], WARSAW 2007, P. 679.