Frank Blajchman

The Second World War - Criminals - Poland

Frank Blaichman was born in 1922 in Kamionka, in the district of Lubartow, into a Jewish family. His grandmother Chana Gitel and his mother Ita (nee Lewin) ran a grocery shop in the town and his father Izrael Chaim Blajchman was a grain merchant. Under the German occupation, Franek Blajchman was initially engaged in trade, transporting food products from the surrounding villages on his bicycle: honey, chickens, butter, grain, meat, tobacco and sugar for sale in Lubartów and Lublin. He did not wear a Star of David armband, and because he spoke perfect Polish, he managed to avoid being recognised as a Jew.

In 1942, upon hearing that the Jews of Kamionka had been prepared for transfer to the ghetto in Lubartów, he fled from his home village and hid in Kierzkówka with the family of Aleksander and Stanisława Głos, who were later awarded the [Medal of the Righteous Among the Nations]. At the turn of 1942 and 1943, after leaving his hiding place with the Głos family, he organised a small armed group of a few people, consisting of hiding Jews, which operated in the surrounding woods. Despite the fact that he credited himself with carrying out actions against the occupying forces, his involvement was questioned by journalists - they pointed out that Blajchman was confusing dates and events and attributing to his unit the actions of soldiers of the Polish underground. In reality, his unit was a group whose goal was survival rather than fighting the occupying forces and who not only maintained contacts with the communist movement, but also committed robberies and fought against the real Polish underground. Blajchman himself boasted about the murder of two Home Army soldiers, probably youths or young adults whom he described as "underlings", and an action against the commanders of a local Home Army unit. Happily unsuccessful. Blajchman wrote in his memoirs entitled Rather Die Fighting: A Memoir of World War II as follows about the AK soldiers:

. (...) the predatorily anti-Semitic Home Army and the National Armed Forces carrying out the orders of the Nazis (...).
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Which was, of course, utter nonsense, but gave a pretext and justification for committing crimes against civilians and patriots fighting against the Germans.

In 1944, a group composed of Jews, under the command of Blajchman, which was already part of Chil Grynszpan's People's Army unit, raided Kamionka. The fighters abducted the commander of Area V of the Lubartów District of the AK, Lieutenant Józef Wesołowski "Walenty", retired WPPolish Armed Forces (Polish: Wojsko Polskie) were the armed forces of the Second Polish Republic from 1919 until the demise of independent Poland at the onset of Second World War in September 1939. officer Major Alfred Zajdel, and Czesław Wartacz. They were all later murdered, with Wesołowski being beaten to death.

His book, especially its Polish edition, has met with numerous criticisms from historians and veterans' circles, due to the numerous contents described by the critics as anti-Polish and falsifying history. The accusations of the Home Army (AK) of collaboration with the German occupant and of programmatic anti-Semitism aroused particular protests.

Continuing his cooperation with communist cells, he later operated in the Parczew Forests, where he became a platoon commander of the communist People's Army. After the Soviets entered Poland in 1944, this paved the way for his career at the Office of Public Security in Lubartow - Stalin's apparatus of terror.

SOURCES
https://wpolityce.pl/historia/434191-blajchman-chwalil-sie-ze-jego-oddzial-mordowal-zolnierzy-ak
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Bleichman
Artur Piekarz - "Zdzisław Broński „Zdzich”, „Kryza”, „Uskok” 1912-1949"
https://sprawiedliwi.org.pl/pl/historie-pomocy/historia-pomocy-dabrowski-boleslaw


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