In response to prof. Paweł Machcewicz, father Maksymilian Kolbe wrote “venomous, anti-Semitic texts”. In flip, the blessed Ulma household was allegedly used to “falsify historical past.” These are simply two of many surprising fragments of an interview with the previous director of the Museum of the Second World Warfare, which had been printed in “Gazeta Wyborcza”.
Parts harking back to Father Maksymilian Kolbe, in addition to Rtm., have disappeared from the exhibition of the Museum of the Second World Warfare. Witold Pilecki and the historical past of the blessed Ulma household. This “invalidation” of Polish historical past sparked quite a few protests from Web customers, publicists and historians. In entrance of the monument to Captain Witold Pilecki in Warsaw, there was additionally an illustration of opposition to the choice of the Museum authorities.
On this context, Prof. commented. Paweł Machcewicz, who admitted in “GW” that fragments of the exhibition relating to Father Maksymilian Kolbe, in addition to Captain Witold Pilecki and the Ulma household won’t return to their place. The historian’s phrases about St. are significantly surprising. Maksymilian Kolbe. The previous director of the Museum of the Second World Warfare said that the priest had printed “venomous and anti-Semitic texts” at one time.
“Because the writer of Catholic magazines with big circulation, reminiscent of “Rycerz Niepokalanej” or “Mały Dziennik”, he printed and wrote extraordinarily vitriolic, anti-Semitic texts. In the meantime, this was omitted on the exhibition, and this uncomfortable matter was handled with the weird euphemism that Father Kolbe “evangelized the Jews” – stated Prof. Machcewicz.
The historian additionally critically assesses the presence of the Ulma household on the exhibition and emphasizes that the Museum additionally offered info that Poles murdered Jews. “We additionally confirmed examples of Poles denouncing and killing Jews. I imagine that we now have created a completely balanced and factual image of Polish-Jewish relations and the attitudes of Poles in the course of the occupation in the direction of Jews and the Holocaust. Including the Ulma household to this story within the type through which it was finished by the administration appointed by PiS politicians distorts historic actuality,” says Prof. Machcewicz in “Gazeta Wyborcza”.
The historian’s phrases in regards to the scale of assist that Poles offered to Jews throughout World Warfare II are additionally surprising. “The very title of this set up, ‘Poles and the Holocaust,’ is meant to convey that the overwhelming majority of Poles helped Jews and had been able to make monumental sacrifices for them, together with the sacrifice of their lives. And as analysis has proven, particularly these carried out over the past twenty-odd years, those that helped had been a handful,” he explains.
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