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A fact from Gates of Tears appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 January 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Gates of Tears is the first comprehensive study of the Holocaust in the Lublin District of Poland?
Hiding offered little hope of salvation; in this regard, Silberklang corroborates the research of Jan Grabowski, Barbara Engelking-Boni and others in showing widespread Polish hostility to Jews. One of the many telling examples Silberklang cites is the case of the 600 Jewish prisoners in the Janiszów forced labor camp near Annopol-Rachów. On November 6, 1942, Jewish partisans stormed the camp, shot the non-Jewish guards, and cried out to the prisoners (in Yiddish) to save themselves. Within a short time, all of the partisans and escaped prisoners were dead, captured either by German manhunts or by local Poles. In many cases cited by Silberklang, Jews who had been “free,” hiding in forests or fields, preferred to voluntarily enter German labor camps. In many cases, Jews in the camps were allowed to move about unguarded, so sure were the Germans that they had nowhere to escape to.
I got a copy of the review from WP:RX and would be happy to send it to you. buidhe 09:07, 23 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, this seems fine. My only concern is whether the local population might not be better than Poles. Granted, Poles were the majority in Lublin Voivodeship (1919–1939), but between 3% to 8% of local population belonged to the Ukrainian minority (Polish citizens of course, on the other hand the Polish census of 1931 has been criticized for under-reporting of minor ethnicity). Not that I am disputing that statistically, the people we talk about where Poles, but I do wonder if omitting the perhaps ~10% participation of a big minority isn't a bit misleading. On the other hand, mentioning them alongside Poles might be UNDUE. No good solution I see... --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 06:20, 24 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
