Sandi, In a purely technical sense, your characterization of a "vast majority" below is off the mark when the numbers you cite claim that just a bit more than 50% of the victims were Jews. We should be mindful that the victims of Nazi extermination included a large number of "Catholic Poles" and so-called "political prisoners". The extermination campaign was focused on both Poles and Jews. The 9-11 million victims represented almost 1/3rd of the entire population of pre-war Poland. Of these 36 million Poles only 3.3 million were Jews. The 6 million you site consists of about 3 million Jews and 3 million Catholic Poles. The presentation (http://www.warsawuprising.com/paper/wrobel1.htm) by professor Piotr Wróbel makes for compelling reading. Roman Sandi Watters wrote: > Hello everyone! > > > The vast majority of victims were Jewish. We can never forget that. Nearly > the entire Jewish population of Poland was exterminated as part of Hitler's > "Final Solution." No one would ever deny that other groups were targeted > and persecuted. Wikipedia, in its section on "The Holocaust," lists "Roma, > Soviet POWs, disabled people, gay men, Jehovah's Witnesses, Catholic Poles, > and political prisoners." But we must remember that of the estimated 9-11 > million that suffered and died in the death camps, 6 million were Jews, over > 3 million at Auschwitz alone. >

It is all so horrifying and must never happen again Evil must be stopped at all cost, if possible! God bless and thanks for all of the information Rose Zydel Olson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roman" <romanka@comcast.net> To: <polandbordersurnames@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 7:21 PM Subject: Re: [PBS] Camps Sandi, In a purely technical sense, your characterization of a "vast majority" below is off the mark when the numbers you cite claim that just a bit more than 50% of the victims were Jews. We should be mindful that the victims of Nazi extermination included a large number of "Catholic Poles" and so-called "political prisoners". The extermination campaign was focused on both Poles and Jews. The 9-11 million victims represented almost 1/3rd of the entire population of pre-war Poland. Of these 36 million Poles only 3.3 million were Jews. The 6 million you site consists of about 3 million Jews and 3 million Catholic Poles. The presentation (http://www.warsawuprising.com/paper/wrobel1.htm) by professor Piotr Wróbel makes for compelling reading. Roman Sandi Watters wrote: > Hello everyone! > > > The vast majority of victims were Jewish. We can never forget that. > Nearly > the entire Jewish population of Poland was exterminated as part of > Hitler's > "Final Solution." No one would ever deny that other groups were targeted > and persecuted. Wikipedia, in its section on "The Holocaust," lists > "Roma, > Soviet POWs, disabled people, gay men, Jehovah's Witnesses, Catholic > Poles, > and political prisoners." But we must remember that of the estimated 9-11 > million that suffered and died in the death camps, 6 million were Jews, > over > 3 million at Auschwitz alone. > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to POLANDBORDERSURNAMES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message