KRAKOW, POLAND — Earlier this month, the Catholic Church in Poland beatified Wiktoria and Jozef Ulma, their children and their unborn child, on what ...
was seen as promoting antisemitism. And the postwar reputation of Poles has been mixed, with stories of some individual Poles participating in acts of persecution and thousands of others, like the Ulmas, risking themselves to help save Jews from the Nazi ovens.by the ruling Communists.
Piotr Wróbel, a history professor at the University of Toronto and the Konstanty Reynert Chair of Polish Studies, said, by and large, the history that Poland tells about its Jewish history is accurate, but it has become politicized by the governing Law and Justice party. “There’s no doubt whatsoever that the Ulma family were heroes and what they did was absolutely heroic. We should remember them,” he said. “The problem is that using the righteous people for an electoral campaign is very low.”
“Jews were generally accepted in Poland when they weren’t necessarily accepted in other places in Europe,” he said.
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