May 14, 2001

Madam Condaleza Rice

Special Assistant to the President Blacksburg, for National Security

The White House
Washington D.C.
Fax (202) 456 2883

United States security is affected by current attempts to destabilize Poland.

Dear Madam:

During the coming June visit by President Bush to Poland a demonstration is planned to bring world attention to the matter of restitution the Jewish properties in Poland.

Of course, any person should have equal rights to recover personally his or her inheritance in Poland. However, in the war ravaged Poland, where more Christians were killed than Jews, there is no justification for foreign legal bodies like the World Jewish Congress to inherit the properties of Polish nationals of Jewish background, who do not have living heirs.

Already on April 19, 1996 the Reuters Agency reported that the real estate tycoon Rabbi Israel Singer, General Secretary of the World Jewish Congress stated that "More than three million Jews died in Poland and the Polish people are not going to be the heirs of the Polish Jews. We never going o allow this. (...) They're gonna hear us until Poland freezes over again". If Poland does not satisfy Jewish claims it will be "publicly attacked and humiliated" in the international forum.

By now, a number of class-action suits against Poland was filed in American courts which have no jurisdiction over Poland. After Germany and Switzerland now Poland is the current target for a shakedown.

It could become a serious threat to Poland's stability if these lawsuits were backed by the United States Government especially if the World Jewish Congress or any other Jewish organization could force the succession rights to all Jewish properties not reclaimed by individual Jews survivors and heirs.

This would result in a control over the largest single conglomeration of Polish assets by a foreign body and would lead to a political and economic de-stabilization of Poland.

Moreover, this could well also open up endless German claims for property lost in Poland as a result of the international postwar settlements ordered by the Allies. The very threat of a gigantic shakedown complicates Poland's chances of admission to the European Union and Poland's value as a member of NATO.

I include information about the current hate Poland campaign which resulted in an apology- mania. In it people who did not commit a crime of sixty years ago apologize to people who never were at the crime site.

I am a disabled survivor of sixty four months of Nazi prisons and concentration camps. I hope that this letter will be useful in the preparation of the visit to Poland by President Bush.

Sincerely,

I.C. Pogonowski, author, among others, of "Poland, An Illustrated History", Hippocrene Books Inc.,NewYork,2000, "Jews in Poland",and "Poland:A Historical Atlas."

POBox 10037, Blacksburg, VA 24062, Tel.: (540) 951-2343, Fax: (540) 951-1329

As Norman Davies said in his response to Abraham Brumberg and Tony Judt, well known anti-Polish liars and besmirchers:

"...And accusations are not the end of it. For after the accusations come American organisations demanding apologies, American lawyers demanding compensation and American politicians demanding unconditional support for the State of Israel."

Here, I would like to take an opportunity to thank Prof. Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski, Prof. Jerzy Robert Nowak, Prof. Tomasz Strzembosz, Mr. Edward Moskal, Senator Antoni Macierewicz and many other distinguish Polish historians, writers, politicians and ordinary Poles, who sacrifice their time, effort and very often are subjected to various pressures for their unwavering fight against powers that want to destroy Poland and throw her on her knees.