In their patriotic complaints, many conservatives miss how much painstaking and positivist work the Institute for National Remembrance does in correcting lies about the Holocaust and analyzing the fate of Poles who saved Jews. The National Day of Remembrance for the Poles who saved Jews under the German occupation is over (March 24), and on this occasion the Institute of National Remembrance, from which the new authorities are cutting millions of zlotys, will announce drastic difficulties and perhaps even an attempt at a solution, has published a six-minute animated film about the Ulma family. The material is aimed at young Polish women and men, and the subject is extremely difficult: on the one hand, the pyramid of cruelty can prevent children from introducing them to the reality of the occupation, but on the other hand, the family Ulma from Markowa is a story about love and sacrifice, but also about elevation to the altars, and therefore shows – although demanding – beauty, truth and goodness.
The film is told from the perspective of the trees, which tell the wind in a fairytale way about the residents of the Ulma household, about the Jews and Germans who are hiding there, and about the informant threat. This animation is important, but only if we put it in context the activity of the Institute for National Remembrance in commemorating and informing Poles saving Jews.
The Institute for National Remembrance struggles with the lies from the circle of Jan Grabowski, supported by foreign countries (especially of course our Western neighbor), always including the lies of the so-called “new school for Holocaust research”. The Institute of National Remembrance conducts commemorations and scientific research in this area. Less than two years ago (May 2022), the funeral of the Książek family, who were murdered by the Germans for helping Jews, took place in Kozłów near Miechów. This final process for the Polish family was organized and preceded by many months of excavations, research, analyzes and purely technical matters (such as ordering decorative wooden coffins), which shows that from the outside we only see the tip of the Institute’s work . .
And thus in the latest issue of “Polish Jewish Studies” (and the magazine is also published in English), Damian Sitkiewicz of the Warsaw Institute of National Remembrance publishes the story of Elżbieta Kowner, who took the Polish Emila Dyna from the Warsaw Ghetto and later kept her at home. This is a new, previously unknown story, which is probably not the last thread in the history of Poles saving Jews.
Finally today is – National Day of Remembrance for the Poles who saved Jews under the German occupation – this is also the work of the Institute for National Remembrance. And even the name here is so coined that even the most hypocritical historians – if they mention the institution of such a holiday, will have to use a name that in itself misleads the history of the occupation (German, not Nazi) –. Moreover, this animation about the Ulmas is certainly not the Institute’s last word on educating young Poles about the heroism of our ancestors who risked their lives to save Jews.
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Source: wPolityce