Word: polishes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the horror, Holocaust documents a hitherto unheralded record of resistance, even beyond the suicidal stand in the Warsaw ghetto and the sporadic concentration-camp rebellions. Jews made up 20% of the French Resistance and 30% of a Free Polish Army (in which officers and men often rivaled the Germans in their savage anti-Semitism). All through Nazi-occupied territory, Jews operated secret schools and underground newspapers. Young Boy Scouts and volunteer paratroopers from Palestine carried out rescue missions that saved thousands. Bands of Jewish fighters roamed the dense forests of Russia and Poland, though their mortality rate often reached...
...Cubans and the British in Palestine turned away refugee ships. The Australians, when asked if they would offer the Jews a haven, replied: "As we have no racial problem, we are not desirous of importing one." There were exceptions, but all too true, says Morse, was the epitaph that Polish-Jewish Poet Itzhak Katznelson wrote in his diary before he was gassed at Auschwitz: "Sure enough, the nations did not interfere, nor did they protest, nor shake their heads, nor did they warn the murderers, never a murmur...
...night, policemen are posted at every intersection on this strip. A navy blue M.P. paddywagon watches over one of the discotheques. Gangs of well-liquored sailors and well-lacquered women stroll the street, stopping to chat in convenient alleyways. At Breen Square, a plump Polish girl will offer to show you her apartment...
...effect has been to give the Poles a virtual veto on all ICC actions of consequence. The Commission cannot follow up a complaint without Polish approval, and once it gets into the field, a Pole dissent can sabotage its efforts...
...Indians, as ICC chairmen, have applied the unanimity provisions to the hilt. Until last week there was some doubt that the ICC would agree to the Cambodian and American plan entrusting it with surveillance of Cambodia's border. The Indians felt approval had to be unanimous and to secure Polish support, engineered a compromise which drastically limits the ICC role to investigating "specific complaints" after the fact...