Along with his opinion on the elimination of Witold Pilecki, St. from the exhibition of the Museum of the Second World Warfare. Father Maksymilian Kolbe and the blessed Ulma household, prof. Machcewicz shared this in an interview with “Gazeta Wyborcza”. Explaining why the Museum authorities wouldn’t restore the heroes to the exhibitions, he stated: “as a result of what’s now taking place within the Museum of World Warfare II is just restoring the unique, authentic form of the exhibition.” – And this form was ready by historians utterly independently of any stress – he added.
“Civil Pilecki” is pointless
Referring to the determine of Captain Pilecki, “GW”‘s interlocutor stated that he was, is and can stay on the exhibition, however within the half dedicated to the resistance motion in Auschwitz.
– In the meantime, a large-format {photograph} of a captain in a swimsuit, from a very totally different period, was added to the wall. Civilian Pilecki, even earlier than his imprisonment, is pointless right herebreaks the inventive narrative utilized by the creators of the exhibition to inform the story of the focus camps – he argued. He added that “a story exhibition shouldn’t be a wall newspaper the place you possibly can put any content material you need, so long as it’s proper and patriotic”.
“A zealous anti-Semite”
In flip, a determine emerges from the determine of Father Maksymilian Kolbe offered by Machcewicz “zealous anti-Semite”. In keeping with him, the way in which wherein the cleric was offered is “objectionable”.
– Because the writer of Catholic magazines with enormous circulation, reminiscent of “Rycerz Niepokalanej” or “Mały Dziennik”, he revealed and wrote extraordinarily vitriolic, anti-Semitic texts. In the meantime, this was omitted on the exhibition, and this uncomfortable subject was handled with the weird euphemism that Father Kolbe “evangelized the Jews,” he stated.
The Ulma household “falsifies historic actuality”
Machcewicz went even additional in his evaluation of the Ulma household offered on the exhibition. Stating that there have been many different examples of Polish assist to Jews, he acknowledged that “Including the Ulma household to this story within the kind wherein it was accomplished by the administration appointed by PiS politicians distorts historic actuality.”
– A totally new set up was added, which was positioned in a spot not meant for it. It was positioned in a room that tells the story of the apogee of the Holocaust, of Auschwitz, and due to this fact utterly destroys the narrative. That is reprehensible from the exhibition perspective. And the way in which the Ulma household is offered additionally arouses outrage and falsifies historic actuality – he stated and defined: “The very title of this set up, ‘Poles within the face of the Holocaust’, is meant to convey that the overwhelming majority of Poles helped Jews and had been able to make enormous sacrifices for them, together with the sacrifice of their lives. And as analysis, particularly carried out over the past twenty years, has confirmed, these Those that helped had been a handful.
The interview given to “Wyborcza” by Machcewicz was extensively reported on social media. They didn’t conceal their outrage on the statements contained therein, amongst others: journalists Krzysztof Stanowski, Wojciech Sumliński, Jarosław Olechowski, in addition to PiS MP Janusz Cieszyński.
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