“Part of remembering,” historian David Blight once observed, “is forgetting.” Perhaps nowhere is this truer than the nation of Poland, where so-called memory wars have been waged over the country’s role in the Holocaust. These battles are at the heart of Judy Rakowsky’s new book, Jews in the Garden: A Holocaust Survivor, the Fate of His Family, and the Secret History of Poland in World War II.
Top Holocaust Scholars Warn Against Attempts to Replace Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan: 'Each Attempt to Seek Political Control Over Yad Vashem Is a Clear Threat to the Memory of Six Million Victims of the Shoah'