[3] The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, in its bibliography, lists the book under "Poles", describing it as follows: "Discusses the terror and oppression of Polish citizens by both the Nazi and Soviet militaries.

[5] Judith Olsak-Glass, a doctoral student in history at the University of Kansas, writing in Sarmatian Review (1999), views Piotrowski's book as a valuable contribution to the field, while seeing the chapter on Jewish collaboration as provocative.

[6] Lisiunia A. Romanienko, then a doctoral student in sociology at Louisiana State University, writing in Humanity & Society (2000), praises Poland's Holocaust as "one of the most comprehensive and well documented, multi-methodological contributions to scholarly work in the area", highlighting its fresh approach to the roles of various ethnic groups in wartime collaboration.

reviewing the book in Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, describes Poland's Holocaust as biased in favor of the Poles; Zlatkes finds that Piotrowski's "polemical passion" accords awkwardly with "scholarly discipline.

[11] According to Messina, Piotrowski shows how the nationalist policies of the prewar Polish government and the national aspirations of minorities led to the outbreak of ethnic conflicts after the start of World War II.