I think he meant that all of the extermination camps were set up in Poland, and often guarded or manned by Poles,
I have never heard of it. Show me evidence that polish people guarded and manned German death camp!
As long as I live I never heard such terrifying statement. Polish civilians and Polish resistance had no access to Auschwitz death camp. There were only rumors that Jews are killed in the camp. Witold Pilecki voluntarily went to the camp. He allowed to be arrested by Germans and was taken to the camp in September 1940. His job was to create resistance inside the camp and rapport to his superiors what is happening in Auschwitz Konzentrationslager. His reports were the first about mass killings of Jews in concentration camp. He escaped from camp in April 1943.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold_Pilecki
A lot of Jewish people I know with roots in eastern Europe are convinced that such camps were deliberately sited in eastern Europe because other Europeans, while they might have been part of the conspiracy of silence or certain individuals might even have helped the Germans to round up Jews, would not have tolerated death camps where men, women and children were gassed to death on their territory, and would not have worked in such camps.
Such untruth. First of all Poland lost war in October 1939 and never capitulated, so there never was established Polish government in occupied territories. Germans organized occupational government which name was "
Generalgouvernement für die besetzten polnischen Gebiete"(schortly GG). Poland was the first place to by occupied fully by Germany and the only place where was none Polish organization collaborating with Germans. The only reason why GG was chosen to locate Death Camps was economy. In pre war Poland there was about 3 mln Jews and it was not profitable to transport them to another place to kill them. So Germans decided to locate camps in place where there was lots of Jews and III Reich had absolute authority.
Polish organizations like Żegota AK and NSZ (two last - Polish military resistance) helped Jews to hide, to take false names or to run to other country. Because of Polish organized resistance against German authority, Germans established law that every one who helped to hide Jew or Jews was punished by death (Only in GG the law was applied). BTW There ware situations when whole families of Poles ware executed by German Soldiers including children and elderly. In that situation Polish resistance aimed in penalize Szmalcownik and volksdeutsch - people who ware giving information about Jews to Germans - by death.
What you are witting is, so unfair.
I believe that new law that Polish Sejm is working on is so necessary that it should be established now to suppress campaign of slanders.
Actually I know that some Jewish emigrants from Poland in 1960' who participated in establishing communism in Poland never admitted why they emigrated. Most of them ware part of communist regime that was killing Polish resistance soldiers and Polish patriots, their children and grand children will never admit that they were banished form Poland because of their Stalinist agenda. Instead they are spreading myths of Polish bloodthirsty anti-Semitism. Easy examples are: Zygmunt Bauman and Stefan Michnik, they have never been convicted for their crimes.
The reaction of Israeli government against Polish new law about IPN (Institute of National Remembrance) is totally unprofessional and inaccurate. I do not believe in incompetence of Benjamin Netanjahu, I think that they are doing it on purpose. USA is working to establish law that will help Jewish organizations draining money from countries where Jews lived before WWII, by pressing governments to use heirless property to support Jewish organizations. BTW There is no way to give them that property, because it is not civilized way to manage inheritance, when person dies without heir state inherits its property, not iis international ethnic comunity.
In Poland we say if you do not know what is going on, it goes about money. Here USA legislation:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/447/text
Here are words of Israel Singer former secretary general of World Jewish Congress (1996):
more than three million Jews died in Poland and the Polish people are not going to be the heirs of the Polish Jews. We are never going to allow this.... They're gonna hear from us until Poland freezes over again. If Poland does not satisfy Jewish claims it will be publicly attacked and humiliated.
That is so ungrateful to accuse Polish, who heped them to survive, just to gain money.
It is well known that many Jews secretely love Germans and feel close to them (at least closer than to Slavic nations), so they want to white-wash Germany. It's still hard to believe that those civilized and cultured Germans could be so barbaric, inhumane and cruel. It's better to blame some poor illiterate Polish peasants instead of blaming "Ashkenaz" (Ashkenaz means Germany).
Jochen Böhler in his book "Auftakt zum Vernichtungskrieg: Die Wehrmacht in Polen 1939" even quoted testimonies of some German soldiers from September 1939, which say that Jewish population in many towns welcomed German invaders in a rather friendly way. They could not see what was coming, many of them were probably ignorant of what was happening with Jews in Germany. They expected German occupation to be like it was back in 1915-1918, after the Gorlice-Tarnów Offensive.
Actually I think that they do not like Germans, they just understand that Germany is no longer interested in paying reparations, so WJC is searching for new source of money. Especially because Polisch government is planning restitution of property taken by communists.
I never heard of Jews welcoming Germans in Poland but it is widely known tat they welcomed Soviet Union. Interesting thing is that it was impossible to create large scale resistance in eastern Poland under Soviet occupation because of mass collaboration of Jews. They knew Poles and they informed about polish military reserve, military settlers and other Polish officials. My grandfather lived in Eastern Poland, his family was hiding during soviet occupation, two of his brothers were killed in Katyń because they ware officers in Polish Army. My grandfather’s cousin was marred to military settler, her husband was pointed by Jew and deported with family near Archangelsk in Russia where all four of her children starved to death.