Blueprints; The anecdote that you bring (cite) of the mathematician in Poland who was impressed by the honesty of the Jews to the extent that he hid some Jews during the Holocaust is heartwarming, but, unfortunately a very strong exception to the general rule of the depraved way the general non-Jewish population in Poland behaved. Beside the virulent anti-Semitism on all levels of interaction between Yidden and the goyishe population in pre-war Poland, after the nazis entered Poland the goyim were more than happy to turn over Jews to the gestapo, after taking all their money and valuables. They double-crossed the Jewish fighters even to their own detriment. And I’m sure there were many Jews (Even though, I don’t know personally of any such events) that helped their christian neighbors and treated them well in previous years, but they turned their backs on them once the nazis were in Poland. In some cases (Yedwabne, for example.) the local population killed Jews and burned them alive in the Synagogues, where they herded them, ahead of the nazis. Even after the war, the polish appetite for Jewish blood was going strong. As in Kielce, a Polish town where some Jews had returned and started building a community. On July 4, 1946, they attacked and killed many Jews.
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