About the Jewish armed resistance movement

The Second World War - Testimonies

Tadeusz Marian Komorowski, coat-of-arms Korczak, alias "Bor" [pl.: the Forest] was a Polish count, hero of World War II, major general of the Polish Armed Forces, prime minister of the Polish government in exile, Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Armed Forces, Commander-in-Chief of the Home Army, knight of the Order of the White Eagle and Virtuti Militari. In a dispatch dated August 5, 1943 to the Supreme Commander's staff in London, he wrote the following about the Jewish armed resistance:

1. We gave aid in weapons and explosives to the Jews who fought in the Warsaw ghetto. This aid could not be too large due to our modest means and the difficult conditions of benefits. If there are other foci of Jewish struggle, we will not shirk from giving them help to the extent limited by our own means. Kalina's order, issued at one time in this matter, is still in effect.

2. Over-reaching assistance on our part to the Jews cannot take place for the following reasons:
a) The country treats the Jews as a foreign element and in many cases hostile to Poland, as they gave evidence of with their behavior during the Soviet occupation and often here as well.
b) Jews armed in large numbers appear in robbery and communist gangs, which are the scourge of the Country. Jews in these gangs stand out for their special cruelty to the Polish population.
c) The public opinion and the opinion within the ranks of the underground resistance would judge unfavorably any greater benefits to the Jews, viewing them as a detriment to their own stock going against the immediate interests of Poland.

3. The Jews are trying by all means to publicize to the world the magnitude of their armed resistance against the Germans, which in the fact it occurred only in the Warsaw ghetto on the part of a few thousand people who heroically fought for their lives with the complete passivity of the entire remaining mass of Jews.

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