Paris – Right-wing Polish organizations are protesting against a conference in Paris, which includes researchers who describe in their work cases of Polish hatred towards Jews during the World War II.
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“The New Polish School of Historical Research on the Shoah” is the title of the three-day conference, which is scheduled to open on Wednesday in Paris. Its cancellation is demanded by organizations such as Polish Media Issues, the World Union of Polish Patriots, the Polonia Institute and the Coalition of Polish Americans.
“As descendants of Poles who fought and died en masse in the fight against Nazi Germany on all fronts (…) we cannot accept the fact that the prestigious EHESS [School for Advanced Research in Social Sciences] lends its scientific authority to anti-Polish, unreliable characters from the world of science,” they wrote in a protest letter.
The conference will be attended historians Prof. Jan Grabowski and Prof. Jan Gross.
Grabowski is a Polish-Canadian Holocaust researcher, co-founder of the Center for Holocaust Research in Warsaw, and author and editor of numerous publications about the Holocaust. In 2014, his book “Hunt for the Jews” received the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research.
Gross’ book “Neighbors,” about the pogrom in Jedwabne on July 10, 1941 against Jewish residents of the village by Poles, initiated the Polish debate on the responsibility of Poles for the crimes committed during WWII and the murder of Jews.
According to the protesters, the activity of the speakers at the Paris conference “bears a clear xenophobic and anti-Polish character.” They would prefer that representatives of the Auschwitz Museum or the Institute of National Remembrance be invited. The amendment to the law on the latter organization caused a crisis in Poland’s relations with Israel last year.
Instead of attempting censorship, add more trustworthy scholars (with solid research documentation) who have more to add to the exploration.
It was well known that most Poles helped the Nazis. Those Poles who fought against the Nazis did not want Jews to join their group, since although they hated the Nazis, they also hated Jews.
Most Jews were forced to hide in the forests, or find a small band of fighters who would allow them in, or find a kind goy (and there were some) to help them hide.
But after much reading on the holocaust, most poles hated Jews.
The truth hurts.Yes, some 1% of the Poles helped Jews. The other 99% were glad to move into their homes and be rid of the KK Zhid.Its in their blood from their priests. Jews killed jc so we are all bad.Catholic Univestities have to stop teaching this. The Polish Pope was a mentch. Everyone else, Rishayim gemurim.