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An internationally best-selling novelist who might have won the Nobel Prize in literature, a patriotic Pole and a devout Catholic, Zofia Kossak-Szczuckawas also an ardent anti-semite. And she is a model for us — not despite her bigotry but because of it.
“Our feeling toward the Jews has not changed,” she wrote in August 1942. “We continue to deem them political, economic, and ideological enemies of Poland.” The Jews hate the Poles more than they hate the Germans who were persecuting them, she continued, and they wrongly blamed the Poles for their problems. Why they did so “remains a mystery of the Jewish soul. Nevertheless this is a decided fact.”
She wrote that in a pamphlet titled “Protest,” after she’d seen what the Germans were doing to the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto, and at a time when help given to even a single Jew was grounds for execution. Five thousand copies were distributed, which must have enraged the Germans.
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“Our feeling toward the Jews has not changed,” she wrote in August 1942. “We continue to deem them political, economic, and ideological enemies of Poland.” The Jews hate the Poles more than they hate the Germans who were persecuting them, she continued, and they wrongly blamed the Poles for their problems. Why they did so “remains a mystery of the Jewish soul. Nevertheless this is a decided fact.”
She wrote that in a pamphlet titled “Protest,” after she’d seen what the Germans were doing to the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto, and at a time when help given to even a single Jew was grounds for execution. Five thousand copies were distributed, which must have enraged the Germans.
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The Catholic faith can tame your ugliest instincts
An internationally best-selling novelist who might have won the Nobel Prize in literature, a patriotic Pole and a devout Catholic, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka was also an ardent anti-semite. And she is a model for us, writes David Mills, not despite her bigotry but because of it.
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