Support Poland against the Lies

My love of Poland was first expressed by reading about her history.  Almost 30 years later, I have built up a large collection of books on all aspects of Poland.  Here at Support Poland we are very lucky in that Jan Peczkis permits use of his book reviews.  Perhaps his must impressive piece of work is on exposing Polonophobia.  Please if you do only one thing today, read it.

Jan Niechwiadowicz, Trustee Support Poland Limited



Listmania by Jan Peczkis

Jan Peczkis has been working hard to educate people using the Amazon website.  Over the years he has grouped books by topic.  For a full list of Jan Peczkis work click here but below are the links to his Polish lists.

Auschwitz (Oswiecim), Kolbe, and the Carmelite Convent Controversy

Exposing Polonophobia (anti-Polish Bias, as in Holocaust Materials)

Forgotten Holocaust: Nazi Genocide of  Poles--the Untold Story

The Forgotten Warsaw Uprising (Poles Against Germans) in 1944

The Genocide of Jews and Poles, Eichmann, and the Final Solution

Gulag (Gulags) Poles; Polish General Anders; Battle of Monte Cassino

The Katyn Massacre, the Gulag (Gulags), and Communist Genocide

Military History: 1939 Nazi Blitzkrieg Myths, Lies, and Misconceptions

Pope John Paul II the Traveler, and Pope John Paul II the Victim

Real Spy Thrillers: Polish Espionage Breakthroughs in World War II

Righteous Among Nations: Polish Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust


Book Reviews by Jan Peczkis

Over the next few weeks, we plan to put all of Jan Peczkis reviews of books related to Poland including some not posted to Amazon.  If you can not wait or would like to see his non-Polish reviews then click here.

Review of Against All Odds by Norman Salsitz and Amalie Petranker Salsitz (1990). Holocaust Library, New York.

Review of A Jump for Life: A Survivor’s Journal from Nazi-Occupied Poland by Ruth Altbeker Cyprys (1997)

Review of Am I a Murderer? Testament of a Jewish Ghetto Policeman. By Calel Perechodnik (1996)

Review of Armia Krajowa w Wicyniu—Tarnopolskiej wsi, by Jan Goniewski (1998). Krakow 1998.

Review of Anatomy of the SS State, Edited by Martin Broszat, Helmut Krausnick, Hans Buchheim, and Hans-Adolf Jacobsen (1968). 

Review of Arnold Ages’ (2001) review of Rethinking the Holocaust, by Yehuda Bauer.

Review of Auschwitz: 1270 to the Present, by D. Dwork and R. J. van Pelt. 1996. W. W. Norton and Company, New York, London

Review of Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: the Operation Reinhard Death Camps, by Yitzhak Arad (1987)

Review of Review of Between Falsehood and Truth, by Stefan Nowicki (2003). Panorama Publishing, Chicago, IL

Review of The Black Book of Communism, edited by S. Courtois et al. (1999). Harvard University Press, Massachusetts, London

Review of The Bravest Battle, by Dan Kurzman (1976). G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York

Review of Bylem Dowodca Brygady Swietokrzyskiej N.S.Z, by Antoni Bohun-Dabrowski (1984).

Review of Caged: A Story of Jewish Resistance (1999) by David J. Landau. MacMillan, Australia.

Review of The Civilian Population and the Warsaw Uprising, by Joanna K. M. Hanson (1982).  Cambridge University Press, London, New York

Review of Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah, edited by Stuart Liebman (2007). Oxford University Press

Review of Cmentarz Lyczakowski we Lwowie (The Lyczakow Cemetery in Lwow), by Stanislaw Slawomir Nicieja (1988). Wroclaw.

Review of The Convent at Auschwitz, by Wladyslaw T. Bartoszewski (1991).

Review of The Crime at Katyn Wood, edited by Barrie Pitt.

Review of: Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz, by Rudolf Hoess (1996). Edited by Steven Paskuly. Da Capo Press  

Review of Ernst Kaltenbrunner: Ideological Soldier of the Third Reich, by Peter R. Black (1984). Princeton University Press, New Jersey

Review of Genocide and the Modern Age: Etiology and Case Studies of Mass Death, edited by Isidor Wallimann and Michael N. Dobkowski (1987).

Review of The Hitler Book: The Secret Dossier Prepared for Stalin from the Interrogations of Hitler’s Personal Allies, Edited by Henrik Eberle and Matthias Uhl (2005). Public Affairs, New York

Review of Hitler Here: A Biographical Novel, by George Thomas Clark (2005). Three Point Press, Bakersfield, California.

Review of The Holocaust Kingdom: A Memoir, by Alexander Donat (1963, 1978). Holocaust Library, New York  

Review of The House of Ashes, by Oscar Pinkus (1964). The World Publishing Company, Cleveland and New York.

Review of In the Ruins of Warsaw Streets, by Severin Gabriel (2005). Gefen Publishing House, Jerusalem  

Review of: Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience, by Gitany Sereni (1974, 1983), Vintage Books, New York

Review of Jewish History. Jewish Religion, by Israel Shahak (1997). Pluto Press, London, Chicago.  

Review of The Jews and the Poles in World War II, by Stefan Korbonski (1989), Hippocrene Books, New York, New York.

Review of The Jews of Warsaw: A History Edited by Wladyslaw T. Bartoszewski and Antony Polonsky

Review of KL Warschau, by Maria Trzcinska (2007). Polskie Wydawnictwo Encyklopedyczne, Radom.

Review of Martyrs of Charity, by Waclaw Zajaczkowski (1988). St. Maximilian Kolbe Foundation, Washington, D. C.

Review of A Mass Murder (review of Jan Tomasz Gross’ NEIGHBORS), By Robert S. Wistrich (2001).

Review of The Massacre in Jedwabne, July 10, 1941, Before, During, and After, by Marek Jan Chodakiewicz (2005)

Review of A MOSAIC OF VICTIMS, Edited by Michael Berenbaum (1990), New York University Press, New York and London

Review of Muranowska 7, by Chaim Litai Lazar (1966). Museum of the Combatants and Partisans, Tel Aviv

Review of Polish-Jewish Relations in North America. (POLIN Vol. 19), edited by M. K. Biskupski and A. Polonsky (2007). Littman Library of Jewish Civilization.

Review of A Private War: Surviving in Poland on False Papers, 1941-1945, by Bruno Shatyn (1985). Wayne State University Press, Detroit

Review of Reckless Rites: Purim and the Legacy of Jewish Violence, by Elliott Horowitz (2006). Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford. 

Review of Red Runs the Vistula, by Ronald Jeffery (1985). Nevron Associates, Auckland, New Zealand.

Review of Rescue Attempts During the Holocaust: Proceedings of the Second Yad Vashem International Historical Conference, Edited by Yisrael Gutman and Efraim Zuroff (1978). Ktav Publishing House, Inc., Yad Vashem, New York, Jerusalem. 

Review of Righteous Among Nations, by Wladyslaw Bartoszewski and Zofia Lewin (1969). Earlscourt Publications, Ltd, London

Review of Running Through Fire: How I Survived the Holocaust, by Zosia Goldberg (2004).  Mercury House, San Francisco.

Review of The Samaritans, Heroes of the Holocaust, edited by Wladyslaw Bartoszewski and Zofia Lewin (1970). Twayne Publishers, New York 

Review of Selling the Holocaust, by Tim Cole (1999). Routledge, New York. 

Review of SHOAH, by Claude Lanzmann (1985). Pantheon Books, New York.

Review of Silent is the Vistula: The Story of the Warsaw Uprising, by Irena Orska (1946), Longmans, Green, and Company, New York, London. 

Review of Statement on War Losses and damages of Poland in 1939-1945, by: Poland—Biuro Odszkodowan Wojennych (1947)

Review of Surviving Treblinka, by Samuel Willenberg, Edited by Wladyslaw T. Bartoszewski (1989). Basil-Blackwell, Oxford.

Review of Teachers: A Tribute to the Enlightened, the Exceptional, the Extraordinary, by John Yow (2001). Andrews McMeel, Kansas City

Review of Thou Shalt Not Kill: Poles on Jedwabne. [No single editor] (2001). “Wiez”, Warsaw.

Review of Together and Apart in Brzezany: Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians, 1919-1945, by Shimon Redlich (2002). Indiana University Press, Bloomington.

Review of Trap with a Green Fence: Survival in Treblinka by Richard Glazer (1995). Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Illinois.

Review of Treblinka, by Jean-Francois Steiner (1967). Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London

Review of TWENTIETH-CENTURY COMMUNISM—THE RISE AND FALL OF AN ILLUSION, by Jolanta T. Pekacz (2001).

Review of TWO FLAGS: RETURN TO THE WARSAW GHETTO, by Marian Apfelbaum (2007). Gefen Publishing House, Jerusalem, New York

Review of Ukrzyzowac Ksiedza Jankowskiego, by Jan Marszalek. (1998). 2 vols., POW (Polska Ofycyna Wydawnicza).

Review of Urban Guerrilla Warfare, by Anthony James Joes (2007). University Press of Kentucky, Lexington

Review of Vorkuta, by Edward Buca (1976 English-language edition). Constable, London.

Review of Warsaw Ghetto: a Diary by Mary Berg, edited by S. L. Shneiderman (1945). L. B. Fischer, New York

Review of Warsaw Death Ring 1939-1944, by Wladyslaw Bartoszewski (1968), Interpress Publishers, Warsaw.

Review of Warsaw Rising, by Gunther Deschner (1972). Ballantine Books, New York

Review of Ciechanowski, Jan M. (1974). The Warsaw Rising of 1944. Cambridge University Press.

Review of Where Light and Shadow Meet: A Memoir, by Emilie Schindler and Erika Rosenberg. 1996. W. W. Norton and Company, New York.

Review of Wolyn 1939-1944, by Wladyslaw Filar (2003). Adam Marszalek.

Review of A Year in Treblinka: An Inmate who Escaped Tells the Day-to-Day Facts of One Year of His Torturous Experience, by Jankiel Wiernik (1944). American Representation of the General Jewish Workers’ Union of Poland, New York, New York.