A Polish political feud over Holocaust history has widened into an international condemnation of the government’s attempts to silence Barbara Engelking, a leading scholar on Polish-Jewish relations during WW II.
More than 300 academics and institutions around the world issued a statement condemning the Polish government-led attacks against Polish historian Barbara Engelking.
Dispute reflects the governing Law and Justice party’s ongoing push for a patriotic narrative of the past that scholars such as Engelking say erases Polish crimes against Jews during the war
Barbara Engelking said Poles had failed during the Holocaust and that the Jews had been incredibly disappointed with the Poles during the war - Click the link for more details.