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- Szmalcownik (Polish pronunciation: [ʂmalˈtsɔvɲik]); in English, also sometimes spelled shmaltsovnik) is a pejorative Polish slang expression that originated...
- to 500,000). The Home Army started carrying out death sentences for szmalcowniks in Warsaw in the summer of 1943. Antony Polonsky observed that "the attitude...
- acted as agents for the Polish resistance. Some of the collaboratorsszmalcowniksblackmailed Jews and their Polish rescuers and acted as informers,...
- and her husband protected. He also gave her money to pay off her own szmalcownik, or blackmailer, who said he was Jewish and threatened to report her...
- Warsaw 70,000–90,000 Polish gentiles aided Jews, while 3,000–4,000 were szmalcowniks, or blackmailers who collaborated with the ****s in ****cuting the Jews...
- According to Jan Grabowski, however, Mann was an infamous collaborator and szmalcownik, who turned in a Polish resistance member to the Germans and was shortly...
- Richard Henry Czarnecki". In January 2018, Czarnecki compared Thun to a szmalcownik, people who blackmailed Jews in hiding during the Holocaust, for her...
- compared Róża Thun to **** collaborators, specifically people called szmalcownik. Consequently, at the request of the leaders of four European Parliament...
- neighbors turning Jews over to the Germans or blackmailing them (see "szmalcownik"). In some cases, Poles themselves killed their Jewish fellow citizens...
- of the resistance) were handed over to the Gestapo by the so-called "szmalcowniks", who received financial rewards. Soon after the German takeover of the...