Loud anti-Semitic outbursts from Confederate politicians in the past year may seem like a sudden and surprising outburst of aggression linked to, among other things, discussions of refugee admissions or pre-election political battles. Nothing could be further from the truth: Polish anti-Semitism has been reinforced by state institutions for decades, and as he recalls in an interview with us Prof. The victim of one of the mentioned incidents is Jan Grabovski – This happened both during the Polish People's Republic and during the presidency of Bronisław Komorowski, which whitewashed the national history and was particularly harmful in this respect.
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To show how much effort Poland has made to hide its complicated history, Prof. Among other things, Grabovski mentions: his own family history. “I learned this 2-3 years ago – my grandfather's brother was killed by people who today the Polish state considers to be an example of morality for Polish youth. It was natural that the Polish national right wing rode on this horse. However, the fact that Polish democrats in the Polish Sejm can vote together with the right of Poland to adopt a Polish law on the Holocaust, the entire law on the Institute of National Remembrance… four of the 460 members of the parliament voted against it. four.”
The Institute of National Memory itself, which creates “state-ordered historiography” and is supported by huge funds from the state budget, is, according to Grabowski, an institution that “burns the most primitive schemes.” Did the Poles rise to the challenge of the Holocaust – as right-wing officials want to show it? And can the community of historians purify themselves? He answers these questions “Canadian Nobel” laureate in our material.
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