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calumniation activities is Alan Dershowitz - Harvard law professor, media star, defender of O. J. Simpson. He alone among the ten must be

acknowledged to have substantial academic qualifications and to show flashes of intelligence and wit. However, restricting myself to his

statements on Ukrainians or Palestinians, I find Dershowitz's thinking fully as primitive and as childishly self-serving and as duplicitous as that

of the other nine.

The incongruity between low desert and high reward is particularly great in the case of Jerzy Kosinski; the evidence below will demonstrate

that in addition to lacking academic capacity, and in addition to lacking literary skills, every area of his life was crippled by immaturity,

irresponsibility, deception, and perversion.

What picture emerges?

Is there any way of tying all of the above generalizations into a single coherent picture? Why should it be the case that the leading

slanderers of Ukrainians are all Jewish? How can it be that Jewish leaders are so prone to lying, and have such palpable intellectual

shortcomings, and sometimes even remarkable character defects? How does it come to pass that they are permitted to incite hatred against

Ukrainians with impunity? The answers to these questions can be found throughout the Ukrainian Archive.

An individual Pole is persecuted by Simon Wiesenthal

Jerzy Kosinski calumniated the Polish people collectively. Simon Wiesenthal persecuted a single Pole - Frank Walus - individually.

Time For the Quotes

And now for the quotations from Sloan's article:

Jerzy Kosinski's "Painted Bird" was celebrated for its "overpowering

authenticity":

"Jerzy was a fantastic liar," said Agnieszka Osiecka, Poland's leading pop lyricist and a familiar figure in Polish intellectual

circles.... If you told Jerzy you had a Romanian grandmother, he would come back that he had fifteen cousins all more Romanian

than your grandmother ... and they played in a Gypsy band!"

Osiecka was responding to a recent expose by the Polish journalist Joa

Poland's best-known Holocaust survivor, had profoundly falsified his wartime experiences. According to Siedlecka, Kosinski

spent the war years in relatively gentle, if hardly idyllic, circumstances and was never significantly mistreated. She thus

contradicts the sanctioned version of his life under the German occupation, which has generally been assumed to be only thinly

disguised in his classic first novel, "The Painted Bird," published in this country by Houghton Mifflin in 1965. ...

In stark, uninflected prose, "The Painted Bird" describes the disasters that befall a six-year-old boy who is separated from his

parents and wanders through the primitive Polish-Soviet borderlands during the war. The peasants whom the boy encounters

demonstrate an extraordinary predilection for incest, sodomy, and meaningless violence. A miller plucks out the eyeballs of his

wife's would-be lover. A gang of toughs pushes the boy, a presumed Gypsy or Jew, below the ice of a frozen pond. A farmer

forces him to hang by his hands from a rafter, just out of reach of a vicious dog. In the culminating incident of the book, the boy

drops a missal while he's helping serve Mass and is flung by the angry parishioners into a pit of manure. Emerging from the pit,

he realizes that he has lost the power of speech. ...

"Written with deep sincerity and sensitivity, this poignant account transcends confession," Elie Wiesel wrote in the Times Book

Review. At the time of Kosinski's suicide, in 1991, Wiesel said, "I thought it was fiction, and when he told me it was autobiography

I tore up my review and wrote one a thousand times better."

Wiesel's review sanctified the work as a valid testament of the Holocaust, more horrible, more revealing - in a sense, truer

than the literature that came out of the camps. Other writers and critics agreed. Harry Overstreet wrote that "The Painted Bird"

would "stand by the side of A

also comparing it to A

human nature." The novelist James Leo Herlihy saluted it as "brilliant testimony to mankind's survival power."

"Account," "confession," "testament," "document," "testimony": these were the key words in the book's critical reception. What

made "The Painted Bird" such an important book was its overpowering authenticity. Perhaps it wasn't exactly a diary

six-year-olds don't keep diaries - but it was the next best thing. And in one respect it was better: Kosinski was A

survivor, walking among us.

"The Painted Bird" was translated into almost every major language and many obscure ones. It was a best-seller in Germany

and won the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger in France. It became the cornerstone or reading lists in university courses on the

Holocaust, where it was often treated as a historical document, and, as a result, it has been for a generation the source of what

many people "know" about Poland under the German occupation. At the height of Kosinski's reputation, there were those who

said that somewhere down the road Kosinski was a likely candidate for the Nobel Prize.

(Jerzy Kosinski, Kosinski's War, The New Yorker, October 10, 1994, pp. 46-47)

But turned out to be fabricated out of whole cloth:

According to Joa

... Siedlecka contends that Kosinski spent the war with his family his mother, father, and later, an adopted brother - and that

they lived in relative security and comfort.

The Kosinskis survived, she suggests, in part because Jerzy Kosinski's father, whose original name was Moses Lewinkopf, saw

bad times coming and acquired false papers in the common Gentile name of Kosinski; in part because they had money ... and

were able to pay for protection with cash and jewelry; and in part because a network of Polish Catholics, at great risk to

themselves, helped hide them.

Siedlecka portrays the elder Kosinski not just as a wily survivor but as a man without scruples. She maintains that he may have

collaborated with the Germans during the war and very likely did collaborate with the N.K.V.D., after the liberation of Dabrowa by

the Red Army, in sending to Siberia for minor infractions, such as hoarding, some of the very peasants who saved his family. Her

real scorn, however, is reserved for the son, who turned his back on the family's saviors and vilified them, along with the entire

Polish nation, in the eyes of the world. Indeed, the heart of Siedlecka's revelations is her depiction of the young Jerzy Kosinski

spending the war years eating sausages and drinking cocoa - goods unavailable to the neighbors' children - in the safety of his

house and yard....

(Jerzy Kosinski, Kosinski's War, The New Yorker, October 10, 1994, p. 48)

Right from the start, Kosinski wrote under duress - an impecunious young man,

particularly situated to be of use to clandestine forces, he could leapfrog to

advancement only by cooperating with these forces. Thus, his first book, the

Future is Ours, Comrade (1960), was published under the pseudonym Joseph

Novak, and appears to have been sponsored by the CIA:

Czartoryski recommends Kosinski to the CIA.

Between Kosinski's penchant for telling more than the truth and the CIA's adamant insistence on telling as little as possible, the