Language:
German
Year of publication:
2006
Titel der Quelle:
Tribüne; Zeitschrift zum Verständnis des Judentums
Angaben zur Quelle:
178 (2006) 165-171
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Jews
Abstract:
States that Jan Tomasz Gross's revelation of the massacre of the Jews of Jedwabne by their Polish neighbors in 1941 gave Poles a chance to rethink their historical self-image as primary victims of the Nazi regime and heroes of the Resistance, who did everything possible to assist and save Jews. For the majority of Poles, however, this rethinking was too difficult; just as they had rejected Claude Lanzmann's film "Shoah" as malicious slander, so they now rejected Gross. The fiercest opposition to suggestions that Poles under Nazi occupation were involved in shameful acts as well as in heroic ones came from radical nationalist or Catholic circles and their press. But this opposition is widely shared and is associated with ubiquitous and growing antisemitism in Poland.
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