Other testimonies not only expressed fear but recorded stories of Home Army violent crimes against the Jews. One of these was the account of Karolina Kremer given in December 1945. […] In the spring of 1944, Kremer recounted narrowly escaping death by a man she described as a Home Army fighter. “AK bandits tracked us like wild animals,” she testified, continuing in the following manner:
I came across a wall of AK people. [The leader] asked me to come closer to him. He came up behind me with a rifle. “Now you’re a dirty Jewess who has [fallen] into my hands. From my hands you will surely not escape.” I started to cry horribly, pleading with him to spare my life. I knelt down and started kissing his legs in hopes that he would spare such a young person. “No one will help you. Your dead body will be lying here,” he said, showing me the place. I started screaming at the top of my lungs, got up and ran into the nearby shrubs. He shot at me several times unsuccessfully. I was terrified but ran further and vanished into the forest.
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The story of Henryk Herstein, born 1921 in Kraków, was similar. Henryk and his brother escaped from the Płaszów ghetto outside Kraków in April 1942. They traveled some 23 miles north to Walbrom where his brother, using false papers, joined the Home Army partisans. The brother told the author the story that one of the partisans confessed that he had taken part in the killing of Jews.
I couldn’t read past this point.
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AK was a big tent, included people from basically every faction, even communists for pretty long time. This is routinely used by mainstream to say “only a minority of AK was bad”. Most of AK members though were either former soldiers of the polish fascist regime, or “neutral” mainstream people which with a lot of probablility means antisemite.
