The Massacre of the Jews of Poland | The Jewish Story | Unpacked 

Also murderers of Polish people are national heroes of Ukrainians - UPA. I never understood why Ukrainians glorify murderers. It's completely stupid.

Some Jews were hated by Cossacks and Polish peasants because, given special rights to collect taxes, in many cases they had increased burden of taxation to enrich themselves, or at least that what was believed.

You failed to mention that the Ukrainian rebellion also claimed many Polish lives. And Ukraine contrary to what you said didn't end up free, the rebellion was eventually ended by Polish magnate Jarema Wisniowiecki, who punished many cossacks with impaling

Ukraine was not "conquered" by Poland. The territories were part of the Great Lithuanian Principality and later became part of Rzeczpospolita.

To say Ukrainian territories were "conquered" by Poland is a major oversimplification - but it's not entirely false. They were already under the rule of polish kings within Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. And the Grand Duchy of Lithuania was not really as Lithuanian as it seems on the surface, as Lithuanian, Belarusian and Ukrainian historians all see the Grand Duchy of Lithuania as their heritage. The Grand Duchy was Lithuanian by name and at the beginning it was started by Lithuanian tribes, but after conquering more and more eastern slavs tribes it was russified. By "russified" I mean adopting the culture of eastern slavs, not Russia, as Ruthenians, eastern slavs, formed variety of different "city states" - Rus of Kiev, Rus of Moscow / Great Duchy of Moscow, which later became Russia etc etc). Huge part of "Grand Duchy of Lithuania" nobility was in fact of Belarusian or Ukrainian origin. So the Grand Duchy of Lithuania formed the commonwealth with the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Dukes of Lithuania became polish kings (starting a dynasty of Lithuanian origin, Jagiellonians). At the beginning there were two separate countries ruled by the same person, but after the union of Lublin, they became one federation state with the clear distinction between polish kingdom's territories and Lithuanian/eastern slavs territories. In the meantime Ukrainian territories were incorporated to the Kingdom of Poland from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (more proper term would be "transferred"). The ruler of both countries, polish king and the Grand Duke of Lithuania, Zygmunt August, was trying to achieve federalization of Polish - Lithuanian Commonwealth. The federalization was supported by Polish nobility and strongly opposed by part, if not majority, of Lithuanian nobility. Territories of Ukraine, which polish historians later called "Kresy" (btw, both terms - Ukraine and Kresy - mean more or less the same, which is "borderlands"), where transferred on the pretext of retrieving the "Red Rus", which in fact was conquered and ruled in the past by polish king Casimir III the Great during Piast dynasty at the begging of XIVth century. So there was some historic background to support polish claim to transfer Ukrainian territories from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. And yes, this move was aimed against part of the ruthenian nobility. Thus the term "conquer" is not true, however it's not entirely false.

In all European countries, pogroms and persecutions were committed every 50-100 years, history tends to repeat itself, that is, it is cyclical

The citizens of Poland have the world's highest count of individuals who have been recognized by Yad Vashem of Jerusalem as the Polish Righteous Among the Nations, for saving Jews from extermination during the Holocaust in World War II. There are 7,112 (as of 1 January 2020) Polish men and women recognized as Righteous Among the Nations, over a quarter of the 27,712 recognized by Yad Vashem in total.

Bohdan Chmielnicki, Zaporizhia hetman, leader of the Cossack uprising against the Commonwealth, died on August 6, 1657. In Ukraine, he is considered a national hero. In Poland, many consider him a traitor.and this movie is so stupid.

There are historical falsehood here. In those times, there was no Poland per se but the Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania which included Ruthernia (there was no Ukraine per se). The Cossack rebellion was against 'an oppression by the Poles.' The Commonwealth's king decided to reduce the number of so-called Registered Cossacks - the Cossack soldiers on the Commonwealth's pay roll. The Cossacks wanted the Cossack registry EXPANDED instead and wanted a was against the Ottomans which the king did not want. So the Cossacks rebelled and Chmielnicki joined them as their leader. Please be historically accurate.

I have to say that the Jewish population had it worse than any other minority when it comes to discrimination and persecution, Even before the Holocaust during World War II there were campaigns that targeted them especially in Tsarist times which is why many came to America in the early 1900s

I've read several times in books over the years of a phenomenon that when a person writes a history of how group A oppressed group B, he's writing about group B. Because group B is the focus, the author fails to mention that group A did the same thing to groups C & D. So when people read the story many years later they understandably come to the false conclusion that group A never oppressed groups C & D. I'm pretty sure this phenomenon has a name, but it escapes me at the moment.

How can you call Poland opressive? We were the only country where there was religious tolerance!

First of all, there is no described system of the Republic of Poland who was specific and there is no well described historical context of times too. In Poland, there was a noble democracy at these times in world dominated despotic monarchies and feudal system . Generally, the Cossacks rebelled many times and were not rebellion against the Republic only against individual magnats and nobility. Cossacks were people Zaporizhia strongly mixed with peoples migrating from the lands of the Commonwealth, etc. from reason regular Tatar invasions they created a specific military democracy conflict consisted in the fact that the Cossacks wanted to make there more registry Cossacks in the Polish armies on what was not able to afford Poland, they considered themselves as free people too what generated a conflicts becouse such a status in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth had only nobles Polish and Lithuania who gathered in the Seym and decided about the country and elected the king . Conflict escalated in real hate to state from times Chmielnicki when this conflict strongly turned into real bloody conflict . In reality they cant get free status from any other country then Poland where was freedom of nobles any other countries it were despotic monarchies . When Chmielnicki later separated the Cossacks from the Commonwealth ( where there was religious tolerance ) they make many massacres of Jews this is true and this is little destroy hypothetical thesis too it was possible to give Cossack high status in Commenwealh of some nobles etc . Russia later destroy Zaporizhia sietch and their freedom

Polish proverb: They weep as they whip you.

Poland was completely innocent in this massacre (the rebels weren't "Polish serfs", either). It was an anti-Polish rebellion (Poles were massacred as much as Jews). But the whole your way of speaking in this video doesn't give any hint of it. Is it honest, my friends?

I see the attitude towards Chmielnicki is starting to change in Ukraine. I'm very content with that, because Chmielnicki was the person that harmed Ukraine the most in its history, at least all subsequent tragedies of Ukraine are consequances of his actions (because he subjugated Ukraine to Russia via so called Pereiaslav agreement). We can trace them untill today. Chmielnicki was the man who dug grave for the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and for Ukraine.

This makes me so angry.

Making Jews the subject of the Khmelnytsky Uprising is a gross exaggeration. They were indeed murdered, but by the way, they were not the most important target

May HaShem punish the wicked murderer everlasting!This breaks my heart into pieces!

Shalom from Poland ❤

Why is that when things turn sour people always wanna look for scapegoats?

The history of Poland is too difficult to you

4:03 interesting trait...you see in 20th century Volyn - they did exactly same bestiality... what kind of humans do that ???

@Unpacked There are many historical errors about this piece. Firstly you called Ruthenian Nobles as Polish, The Little Kings as known in polish was all Ruthenian desendants of Rurik. There where no conquest of Ukraine by Poland. One of the Jaggielons (house from Lithuania) added Ukraine to Poland with the support of local nobles which aquired crest, got the same rights as polish nobles and got a seat in Sejm. Cossacks didnt want the independec becouse PLC gave them the most freedom that othere states could give them. They wanted to expand cossack register (more paid ppl, they didnt want payment in land). Ruthenians wasnt opressed, next king of PLC was Ruthenian. You probobly speak about class divisions. Veeeery shalow, you shoudnt touch politics and just focus on pogroms.

On the subject of pogroms in the Ukraine, you should also do pieces about the Kiev pogroms of 1881-82, the the Kishinev pogroms of 1903-1905, and especially the Petliura pogroms of 1917-1920.

Here in Poland we also dont like Chmielnicki, by his uprisign of cossacks he started series of wars in 1650-1670 that killed around 1/3 of population of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and destroy its economy more than Mongol in 13th centaury and Germans and Soviet after '39... And fun fact: If not WW2 and Holocaust there would be more Jews in Poland than in current Israel

What did they do to make people so angry at them? It has to be something

Ok, hold on a second. Finally of this, obviously important video is scattered into nonsense. Khmelnizki is not seen as a hero by official Ukrainian historiography. He was one of the Hetmans (Cossack rulers) with whom Soviet-era historians was OK simply because he was the one who signed union with Russians. All this statues and “honour” is legacy of a Soviet era. Kudos for highlighting such important topic but oversimplification of complex matters is never working well

THIS VIDEO IS BÌAST READ BY LIAR WOW

Regardless of the history we should get along, Poles and Jews worldwide. We share similar scars and a lot of Jews has polish roots. Hopefully future generations will see through all the bad and be able to prosper together

once again when Poles saved Jews but still this video have much trouble about polish history and ukraine for example, the Poles did not oppress the Cossacks and Ruthenians in Ukraine, but their situation was better than in neighboring countries.

What is it with jewish people? Everywhere you go you seem to be persecuted... What are you doing to the native population to illicit that kind of reaction every single time?

Israel is doing the same to palestine. Wake up people!

The story is very, very one-sided which is characteristic of Haggadah, you forgot about the majority of victims, which were Poles, and you forgot to say that the Jewish Golden Age in Poland was paid for by the debt (today worth close to $20trilions) and never repaid to the Church and King...

Jews was massacred by the rebel of Chmielnicki, which was a rebel against Poland. Polish Prince Michał Wiśniowiecki defended and rescued Jews. I suggest the audiance of this video to read "Abyss of despair" written by Jew Hanover Nathan. Wolhynia is a painful history, and I don;t want to forget. At the massacre participated at most 5000 of 40 000 000 Ukrainian 0.125%. Ukrainian and Polish people lived together. Usually a daughter went to church with her Mother while a son went with her father. Ukrainian people never created their national country government. They need some myth -- I deplore it is Bandera. They don;t know the truth. Author of this video exhibits malicious attitude by skewing trutht. Read the book written by a Jew.

And how many Polish Slavs were murdered during the coassack conquest?

Didn't the massacres of the Jews you mentioned happened outside of Polish territories and weren't they some of the reasons they escaped to Poland. With the exception of Kielce and potentially Jedwabne (needs further archeological and forensic study) I don't know of any pogroms perpetrated specifically by Roman Catholic Poles. The way you said it sounded as if earlier persecution happened in Poland as well.

Hey Unpacked, Can you make History of Jews In Southeast Asia?

Ukrainians not poles !!!

It is no coincidence that the name "Bogdan" in Hebrew means a traitor...

Wha intresting, the moust heroic Hetman of Ukraine was Sahaidachnyi. In a Soviet period he was prohibited, but was very popularizated Khmelnyczki, all monuments in a Soviet period where buiited, and no one for Sahaydachnuy

Thank you for this important piece of history.

Poland, the Paradise of the Jews! (1264 - 1772).

You Jews, are doing the same to unprotected, innocent Gaza people, children, babies....

ANOTHER REASON WHY I CAN NOT STAND THE PAST. PAINFUL & DIFFICULT TO SEE SOME UGLY COMMENTS ON BOTH SIDES. LOOSING FAMILY & FRIENDS FROM ANTISEMITIC ACTS OF WAR, TERRORISM IS NEVER EASY !! HOWEVER, WE NEED TO START BUILDING BRIDGES OF UNDERSTANDING & LOVE. BE KIND TO 1 ANOTHER 🕊 Thank You for the KIND & DECENT Comments 🤍

You should also do a video on the antisemitic Ukrainian-Rus prince Sviatoslav I who massacred Jews in his campaign against the Khazar Khaganate (which was a Jewish state).

May G_d protect all jews and may G_d help all gentiles to see Him in his entire glory!

Thank you very much for making me more aware of the history of my Jewish heritage which is very much appreciated Happy Prosperous New Year 2022 to all Fred Simcha Sarah Norman family 🤗🤗

Incorrect map of Ukraine at 5:03 is all you need to know that Russian lobby is huge in Israel and this channel simply retransmits the same narratives about Ukraine Moscow does. Will we see a video with Russian much more recent sins against Jews and an insulting map? I doubt that. It's a shame you still haven't acknowledged Holodomor and ignore the fact that Ukraine IS a center of Jewish culture with lots of Jews, sinagogas, schools, street names, monuments and memorials. Ukraine treats Israel with respect and this video says more about your channel than about history.

I will never understand how you could massacre a whole people. Like they are the borg or a hive mind. How could you spill innocent blood?

And after Poland crushed the Cossacks, they turned to Russia asking for help. At that time there was not such a thing as _'Ukrainian State'_ but a small area around Kiev. All the coast on the Black Sea was uninhabited due to raids by Muslim Tatars from the Crimean Khanate, a vassal of the Ottoman Empire. Hence it was dubbed The Wild Fields. When Russians defeated Tatars and took Crimea, they colonized the Wild Fields where the oblast of Novorossiya or New Russia was established. The current Ukraine is a Communist invention carried out by Lenin in order to weaken and crack Russia in order to make her easy to plunder by Western Powers. Something still longed and blatantly confessed regarding the rich natural resources in Siberia.

The oppresive Polish narrative is beyond ridicilous, in fact many Poles fought on the side of Khmelnytsky and many Ukrainians fought on Polish side. The whole rebellion is much more complex than modern idea of nationality...

I would like to suggest that everybody checks out the Compact of Warsaw, (Jan. 28, 1573), charter that guaranteed absolute religious liberty to all non-Roman Catholics in Poland. The Compact was an essential part of the proces of further integration of Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christianity and was the beginning of an important liberalization process that was effectively ended by Chmielnicki rebellion. Because it showed growing openness it might well have worked. Some people feel that leaving the Commonwealth and joining Russia helped Ukrainians maitain their identity. Well the false history of Taras Bulba by Nikolai Gogol was fiction purchased by the Russian government but the fact remains that the Russian regime was far more tyrranical and it was like falling from a pan into fire.

Found out my Great Grandfather was Polish/Russian..hard to know exactly..due to Russian Empire.

I hope they take down that statue with respect for Jews…

However one must add, in the 17 th century jews were not the only people massacred in the Commonwealth..due to many inner uprisings and wars on the borders as well as Tatar invasions, jewish, as well as polish and ukrainian peasants and citizens were massacred robbed etc. Of course jews were always a Group at high risk.. however the life was miserable for many other social groups

awful

Half acurate, half oversimplifyed crap, mixed with modern point of reference.

Bohdan Khmelnytsky was a freedom fighter who only attacked those who oppressed the ruthenian people. He was brutal but ruthenia was occupied by foreign empire for hundreds of years. If your people were occupied for hundreds of years you would do the same.

A dog will never tell you why it was kicked. Only that it had been kicked. Ancient Russian proverbs

This video is a racist disgrace. "Sadly the Ukes were fervently antisemitic and viewed Jews as an active arm of the oppressive Polish system." Firstly, Jews WERE an arm of the oppressive Polish system, even in some cases literally enslaving Uke peasants. Secondly, how on Earth do the makers of this squalid little video know that the peasants were "fervently antisemitic"? Were they polled? What source attests to this? How can you slander millions of people so casually? Jews were given the "responsibilit" of "tax-collecting." Wow! No shame. Not collecting, tax-farming. Jews were given this lucrative concession which meant whatever they could collect beyond what was owed the magnates they could legally keep. In other words, it was a racket. Gee, I wonder why the overtaxed peasants viewed the Jews as an active arm of their oppression. The peasants had every right to resent the Jews (and Poles) as they were the people who were exploiting them, which is something very,very different from antisemitism. Conflating the two, as this video does, is disgusting. The Ukes had every right to rise up against the jews just as the Jews had every right to rise up against the Romans. Watching this vid one would get the impression that Jews were the chief targets of the violence and its main victims. The rebs were fighting Poles and their allies, not just Jews. Jews comprised a small fraction of the slain. A documentary vid on the Khmelnitzki Rebellion and the word "Arenda" is never mentioned. This video is made by Jews and relates these events with a racistly pro-Jewish, anti-Ukranian bias. I imagine that if it were made by Ukes ti would contain their biases. Some of the Poles in the comment section give a view of events which is quite forgiving to the PLC. Where does it end? Let me start: I am, in part, of POlish descent, and I say what those Poles were doing in the Ukraine in those days was wrong. Poles and Jews were abusing the native people of that region and it was unconscionable. The Ukes were right to rise up and try to expel us and, yes, to seek retribution. Now it is time for the Jews to do the same. No one with a conscience can defend the Arenda system, and Jews were its chief administrators and one of its beneficiaries. You do what you ought not and sometimes you suffer what you ought not. Jews wer complicit in the invasion and occupation of the Ukraine, and that is simply the truth. There is a book written by a Jewish author, Nathan of Hanover, called Abyss of Despair. It is a contemporaneous account and well worth reading if you are interested in this topic.

Collaboration with the Germans during the Second World War is a sensitive topic in Ukraine today and is hardly known to young Europeans! Leading politicians also disagree as to whether the collaborators of the time are to be regarded as heroes or as criminals. In doing so, they provide a reflection of society. When veterans recently celebrated the 70th anniversary of the founding of the 14th Waffen SS Division “Galizien”, numerous younger people were also there. The highlight was a mock funeral of former members of the unit, the coffins covered with the Ukrainian flag, before which comrades in SS uniforms saluted. (Welt)

The greatest pogrom is yet to come.

"And the masses that followed the Greek Orthodox Church became gradually impoverished. They were looked upon as lowly and inferior beings and became the slaves and the handmaids of the Polish people and of the Jews. ... The rest of the Ukrainians, however were wretched and an enslaved lot, servants to the dukes and the nobles. Their lives were made bitter by hard labor, in mortar and bricks, and in all manner services in the house and in the field. The nobles levied upon them heavy taxes, and some even resorted to cruelty and torture with the intent of persuadinf them to accept Catholicism. So wretched and lowly had they become that all classes of people, even the lowliest among them, became their overlords." Abyss of Despair: The Famous 17th Century Chronicle Depicting Jewish Life in Russia and Poland During the Chmielnicki Massacres of 1648-49 page 27&28

1:51 What's the name of the instrumental?

Thank god I’m cristean orthodox ☦️

Wolyn- read about this and you will know what Ukrainians are capable of.

3:55 so the Wolyn massacere wasn't the first time Ukrainians did that, strange nation.

Another cool hero that stood up for his people against the Talmudic people. The story about Bogdan Chmielnicki is not true, but the real story is he was upset that the Talmudic people was causing pain and suffering just like they doing in 2024 by destroying the world by taking all of our money to kill innocent Palestinian people and to make Black people in America live like hell this soldier did not stand for that, so what he did was got those people out of the Christianpeoples homeland by doing what he needed to do to get those people out this man is a hero. The Palestinians need to take a play out of his book.

Amalek.

Some on America's right would feel inspired.

Time to forgive and forget ❤❤❤

I was suspicious when I saw that your channel is mostly pro-Israel, but that I see from numerous sources that this pogrom really did happen.

Thank you, great material.

Thank you for making these videos.

Unpacked, why not do a 160 plus series on EVERY COUNTRY jews outstayed their welcome? Maybe better yet, why not start a new episode on Religious Cults that make 1000 year old land claims sparking off people like Bogdan (Gods Day) Chmielnicki glorifying Karma.

By the wat Please Dont call them Eastern Orthodox there are not Orthodox Jews or Oriental Orthodox Christians or Orthodox Muslims Caraims simply Eastern True Church -- Pravoslavie it was in union or mostly alliance with Catolics to 1052.The Oriental Orthodox Churches Miaphisite /Nestorian Churches distinguished earlier in mid off V(451) century with such a names Oriental Orthodox already in thath ancient times , By the way most off those rebelians where also Uniates -Eastern Liturgical Ukrainian Catholics since Union off Brest 1596 but joined for veries economical reasons Eastern True Church ,Loyalist Church in thath rebelion.

That music in the background is so annoying, cut it out, the video stands on its own merits

My heart with those who died not with those who are massacring palestanians daily

3:33 Please, don't put the word in the mouth of the leader without a source.

only the devil can thrive in exile

The term Jewry although apolitical is easily traced.

You use wrong mapping of Ukrainian territory

As always, these pogroms were started when they were discovered performing JRM...

Even when the kings were cool with us there were the still certain people 🤦🏼‍♂️.

I am Ukrainian and I am just shocked by so many lies and racism towards Ukrainians. Firstly, why Jews were expelled from different countries and they were sheltered by Poland because, in your words, Jews are ordinary entrepreneurs. Secondly, as you noticed, Ukraine with 70% of the population was occupied by Ukrainians by Poland. The Polish magnates in Ukraine were the richest, as the very juices were squeezed out of the Ukrainians. And as you rightly said, when the Polish magnates gorged themselves in France, their estates were run by Jews who took almost everything from Ukrainians, it was the Jews who introduced a fee for visiting the church for Ukrainians. Yes Yes. This is in the history of Ukraine of those times. Why do you paint your ancestors as innocent? And why don't you say that Khmelnytskyi completely defeated the Polish army? And Jan Casimir persuaded Khmelnytsky not to destroy "Rzeczpospolita", in exchange for Cossack privileges. And after the death of the king, the new king again went to war against Ukraine. Thirdly, about 10 million Ukrainians died in World War II. In the occupation of the Soviets were sent to death by the Russians (the Soviets). Name me a country in Europe in which so many people died - maybe Poles, French, which one?!?! Nobody got hurt as we did. If it were not for the sacrifice of the Ukrainians, the Germans would have destroyed all the Jews on the planet and many other nations. Fourth. The first communists who came to power, may not believe, but the majority were Jews - Trotsky, Dzherzhinsky, and so on. So the Soviets arranged a famine for the Ukrainians in order to suppress the uprisings, sell grain to Europe, and carry out industrialization. From 5-8 million Ukrainians were killed.

And the pity goes on and on

My family changed their faith to Christian...😢😢because of persecution 😢

Ukraine is always conquered by someone. 😂😂

The connivance of the few has always brought retribution by the many.

We are cristeanes orthodox ☦️🇷🇺☦️

LOL

These are not Semites but Khazars, read a little

Let author name a single European nation that is clean. Is there any? However, this is not the reason for mulling over past grievances. Yes Ukrainians should admit to pogroms. Reckoning the past is difficult, not easy to understand. However, instead of fuelling hatred, we should look for reconciliation, reunion and forgiveness. Germany has come through this process as well as Japan.

This is a fascinating lecture. A real must for anyone with an interest in this subject matter!

You have the incorrect map of Ukraine. Crimea is part of Ukraine.

And now they are trying to do it again.

Oy. Jews means polish don’t act like they were somewhat separate

Tell us better about the INQUISITION of the Catholic Church with long cruel, horrific torture and executions of people. But people continue to worship and pray for the Pope.

World peace starts from free strong PALESTINE 🇵🇸