PiS MPs announced that they would submit a draft resolution to the Sejm, obliging the government to intervene in the issue of restoring the exhibition of Polish heroes at the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk. They announced that tomorrow there will be a meeting of Poles who will oppose all attempts to impose the German view of history. “We are in Poland, this is not the General Government Policy, this is the Sejm of the Republic of Poland and I expect that Marshal Szymon Hołownia will introduce this resolution on the agenda and defend Polish history, tradition and legislation,” said Marek Suski .
Management of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk, which has been managed by Prof. Rafał Wnuk since April, informed about the planned and already implemented changes in the main exhibition, which will return to the state from 2017. This means, among other things: removal of the captain portraits from the exhibition. Witold Pilecki, Father Maksymilian Kolbe, as well as a multi-format photo of the Ulma family.
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PiS resolution on the Gdańsk scandal
We have submitted a draft resolution to the Chairman of the Sejm demanding that the government of Donald Tusk intervene in the issue of restoring the exhibition of the Museum of the Second World War of Polish heroes, that is, Captain Witold Pilecki, the family Ulma and Father Maksymilian Kolbe
– said Mariusz Błaszczak at a press conference in the Sejm.
He added that the resolution “is our response to giving in to German historical policy, to giving in to the German historical narrative, which causes the German crimes committed during the Second World War to be questioned.”
PiS MP Marek Suski announced that he would request that the Sejm agenda be supplemented with an item on this project.
We are in Poland, this is not the General Government, this is the Sejm of the Republic of Poland and I expect that Marshal Szymon Hołownia will introduce this resolution on the agenda and defend Polish history, tradition and legislation.
– said Suski.
Protest action in defense of heroes
PiS MP Anita Czerwińska, in turn, announced this tomorrow. At 5:30 p.m. there will be a gathering of Poles in front of the Monument to Captain Pilecki in Warsaw, in Gdańsk on the grounds of the Museum of the Second World War and in Markowa in front of the Museum of the Blessed Ulma Family. who “will pay tribute to the Polish heroes, but will also firmly oppose all attempts to impose the German story and vision of history on us.”
PiS MP and former Minister of Culture Piotr Gliński judged that Poland without Pilecki, without the Ulma family, without Father Kolbe “is another Poland and that this change, that of a beautiful, proud, victorious Poland with a difficult history, does something that is completely incomprehensible to millions of Poles.
We do not agree with this. We demand that Polish history not be falsified
– said Gliński.
MP Joanna Lichocka also said that PiS had already collected signatures to urgently convene an extraordinary meeting of the parliamentary culture committee, which would be dedicated to “this scandal”.
The MP also presented a draft resolution. As she said, her text is not difficult to understand and accept.
We believe that he should be accepted by politicians of all political options because he is non-partisan, he is Polish, he is pro-Polish and he stands for Polish memory, pride and identity.
– Lichocka emphasized.
Playing down Polish heroism
She added that the project states that removing figures of Polish national heroes from the permanent exhibition of the Museum of the Second World War is an unacceptable action that harms Polish memory and implements a program to commemorate Polish heroism and martyrdom during the to reduce the Second World War. The project also states that the actions of the museum’s new management should be treated as “subordinating the museum’s program to external interests, implementing ideas consistent with German historical policy.”
The Sejm calls on the government to take immediate action to restore the figures of Polish national heroes to their proper dimensions in the permanent exhibition at the Museum of the Second World War.
– wrote in the draft resolution.
The Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk announced on its website that it “intends to restore the coherence of the entire exhibition.”
Currently we return to the original version of the script and the vision of the authors of the sections “System of concentration camps” and “The road to Auschwitz” of the part of the exhibition entitled “The Horror of War”.
– reported.
The dispute over the main exhibition at the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk has been going on since 2017, that is, since the opening of the museum, which was built and prepared by a team led by Prof. Paweł Machcewicz. Two weeks after the opening of the museum (2017), Machcewicz was replaced by Dr. Karol Nawrocki, who was previously head of the Public Education Department of the Institute of National Remembrance in Gdańsk (currently he is chairman of the Institute of National Remembrance).
The new management of the museum changed the main exhibition, the authors of which were: Paweł Machcewicz, Janusz Marszalec (current deputy director of the Institute for the Second World War), Piotr M. Majewski and Rafał Wnuk (current director of the Institute for the Second World War) World War ).
In 2018, the case was submitted to the District Court in Gdańsk. Two years later, the court rejected 26 of the 28 demands of the former museum directors, including 16 of the 17 demands regarding changes and additions to the main exhibition.
Of the seventeen demands, only one was granted: the removal of a film produced by the Institute of National Remembrance entitled “The Invincibles”
– said the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in a statement sent after the verdict was announced in October 2020.
The demands regarding, among others: removal from the main exhibition of the Museum of the Second World War: the portrait of Father Maksymilian Maria Kolbe together with a multimedia stand dedicated to him were rejected; a portrait of Witold Pilecki together with a multimedia stand about his figure; photos of Warsaw insurgents taking the military oath before joining the unit during Holy Mass; photos of the Ulma family together with the multimedia booth “Poland saves Jews”; death mask of the blessed priest Stefan Wincenty Frelichowski (victims of KL Dachau) with an exhibition dedicated to the execution of clergy in concentration camps; an exhibition in the form of the “List of murdered Poles in KL Dachau”, prepared in 1946 by the team of Fr. Edmund Greyhound (prisoner of Dachau).
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Source: wPolityce