2/2/2005 - On the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, The New York Post featured an
op-ed written by a local rabbi. It was just too much to take for one Auschwitz survivor.
He described the article as another example of this constant anti-Polish prejudice and
shameful inability to show even the slightest bit of sympathy for any of the Christian
victims. Here is what he wrote to the newspaper in the hope the editors could be fair and objective and permit their readers to see what one of those Christian victims says:

Dear Editor:
As a Polish Catholic who survived more than three years in Auschwitz, I was really disturbed by Rabbi Andrew Baker’s (1/26) misleading commentary on Poland’s Progress.Six million Polish citizens were killed during the Holocaust years – three million Polish Jews and three million Polish Christians. Despite the fact we were being killed at the same time the Jews were being killed, Baker suggests we should have been doing more to help. He condemns us as seeing ourselves victims with no role in the Nazi extermination of Jews. Baker’s half-truths and self-centered interpretation of the Holocaust are an insult to us as Catholics. Why won’t he at least acknowledge that Poles are the largest group of Righteous
Israel honors at Yad Vashem?
Why does he ignore the fact Poland was the only country where the Germans gave an official order of death for any Pole who helped a Jew? Or that more Poles were killed for helping Jews than anyone else anywhere else? Baker calls our help a myth. But he accepts as valid the myth created by the disputed and highly-challenged book, Neighbors, blaming us for a German atrocity at Jedwabne. Eye- witness testimony has now come forth confirming it was solely a German crime. Rabbi Baker, your gripe, like ours, is with the Germans. Not with us. Michael Preisler,
Co-Chair Holocaust Documentation Committee Auschwitz No. 22213 Home Phone: (718) 805-7371