The primary exhibition of the Museum of the Second World Conflict in Gdańsk should be an instance of what unites us, not divides us; fragments of the exhibition relating to Captain Witold Pilecki, father Maksymilian Kolbe and the Ulma household ought to be instantly restored – stated Deputy Prime Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.
Administration of the Museum of the Second World Conflict in Gdańsk, which since April this 12 months managed by prof. Rafał Wnuk, knowledgeable concerning the deliberate and already applied adjustments in the primary exhibition. It’s to return to the state from 2017. The previous director of the establishment, Dr. Karol Nawrocki, assessed the actions of the present authorities as “indecent”.
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The matter was commented on on Wednesday on social media by the Deputy Prime Minister, the top of the Ministry of Nationwide Protection and the chief of the Individuals’s Get together.
“The primary exhibition of the Museum of the Second World Conflict in Gdańsk should be an instance of what unites us, not divides us. Eradicating from it those that testified to patriotism and steadfast struggle for the nice of the Homeland is unacceptable,” Kosiniak-Kamysz stated in a put up on the X platform.
As he burdened, “fragments of the exhibition regarding Captain Witold Pilecki, Father Maksymilian Kolbe and the Ulma household ought to be instantly restored.”
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The Museum of the Second World Conflict in Gdańsk introduced on its web site on Tuesday that it “intends to revive coherence of the whole exhibition.” “We’re at present returning to the unique model of the script and the imaginative and prescient of the authors of the +System of focus camps+ and +Street to Auschwitz+ sections of the exhibition titled +The Risk of Conflict+,” it stated.
The dispute over the primary exhibition on the Museum of the Second World Conflict in Gdańsk has been happening since 2017, i.e. because the opening of the museum, which was constructed and ready by a crew led by Prof. Paweł Machcewicz. Two weeks after the opening of the museum (2017), Machcewicz was changed by Dr. Karol Nawrocki, who beforehand was the top of the Department Workplace of Public Schooling of the Institute of Nationwide Remembrance in Gdańsk (at present, he’s the president of the Institute of Nationwide Remembrance).
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The brand new administration of the museum modified the primary exhibition, whose authors had been: Paweł Machcewicz, Janusz Marszalec (present deputy director of the Institute of World Conflict II), Piotr M. Majewski and Rafał Wnuk (present director of the Institute of World Conflict II). They didn’t agree with the adjustments, treating them “as political interference within the ideological message of the exhibition and a violation of copyright.”
In 2018, the case was dropped at the District Courtroom in Gdańsk. Two years later, the courtroom dismissed 26 out of 28 calls for from the previous museum administrators, together with 16 out of 17 calls for relating to adjustments and additions to the primary exhibition. “Of the seventeen calls for, just one was granted – the elimination of the IPN’s movie ‘The Unconquered+’ from the primary exhibition of the Second World Conflict,” the Ministry of Tradition and Nationwide Heritage emphasised in an announcement despatched after the decision was introduced in October 2020.
Nevertheless, the calls for relating to, amongst others, the elimination of the portrait of Father Maksymilian Maria Kolbe from the primary exhibition of the Museum of the Second World Conflict, along with a multimedia stand dedicated to him, had been rejected; elimination of the portrait of Witold Pilecki from the primary exhibition together with a multimedia stand about his determine; eradicating from the primary exhibition images of Warsaw insurgents taking the navy oath earlier than becoming a member of the unit throughout Holy Mass; elimination of the Ulma household picture from the primary exhibition together with the multimedia stand “Poles saving Jews”; elimination of the blessed’s demise masks from the primary exhibition. priest Stefan Wincenty Frelichowski (victims of KL Dachau) with an exhibition dedicated to the execution of the clergy in focus camps; eradicating from the primary exhibition an exhibit within the type of the “Record of murdered Poles in KL Dachau” ready in 1946 by the crew of Fr. Edmund Greyhound (prisoner of Dachau).
Nevertheless, the courtroom discovered that the exhibition and script had been protected works and that the museum represented by Nawrocki had violated the rights of the exhibition authors and ordered the Museum of the Second World Conflict to pay PLN 10,000 to the Affiliation for Help to Autistic Individuals.
A 12 months in the past, the Courtroom of Enchantment in Warsaw confirmed the judgment of the primary occasion, discovering that the museum represented by the then director Nawrocki “infringed the copyright and good identify of the authors of the exhibition as historians.”
Nevertheless, the courtroom didn’t order the restoration of the unique form of the exhibition because of the truth that the adjustments – in line with the courtroom – weren’t noticeable to most recipients. Nevertheless, it determined to cease exhibiting the IPN animation within the final a part of the primary exhibition, however didn’t order the restoration of the earlier end result of the exhibition.
The Courtroom of Enchantment additionally upheld the interpretation of the courtroom of first occasion, together with compensation within the type of fee of compensation by the MIIWŚ to the Affiliation for Help to Autistic Individuals.
In April 2024, the administration of the museum was taken over by the 2 authors of the script – Rafał Wnuk and Janusz Marszalec.
In response to the present authorities and the creators of the unique most important exhibition, director Nawrocki’s actions “distorted the that means of the story created by the authors.” “They had been additionally the primary try and impose one model of the interpretation of the occasions of World Conflict II from above below the banner of state historic coverage” – as acknowledged on the museum’s web site. (PAP)
writer: Rafał Białkowski
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