The Difficulty of Confronting the Holocaust: Mass Murder in Jedwabne, Poland - Jan Gross
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- čas přidán 15. 10. 2020
- Lecture starts at 9:07. Q&A starts at 55:50. Jan Gross, emeritus professor of history at Princeton University, discusses mass murder and struggles over incorporating the atrocities of the Holocaust into official history by looking at anti-Jewish massacres in 1940s Poland.
Jan Gross is the author of groundbreaking books including “Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland” (2000) and "Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz” (2006). He is the Norman B. Tomlinson '16 and '48 Professor of War and Society, emeritus and Professor of History, emeritus, at Princeton University.
This talk is part of the fall 2020 weekly lecture series, "Lessons (Not) Learned from the Holocaust," hosted by the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Washington and made possible through the generosity of Steven Baral.
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Why historians and witnesses who have a different than Mr. Gross opinion about those events aren't invited to take part in organised by his circle conferences? That should raise some questions.
Wolfgang Birkner and his SS Einsatzkommando was responsible for the organised action in Jedwabne. There are German(!) documents confirming this. Part of the plan, (one of the many like this in the region), was to design a covert operation which would indict the local population. Local population wasn't even 100% Polish in the region at that time. It's possible for example, there were some volksdeutsche among the cooperants. Gross' thesis doesn't hold water at all. I'd encourage the readers not to take anything they read at the face value. What I wrote can be verified-do your own research as with anything else.
As an ethnic Polish citizen I'm grateful for the brave work of Jan Gross and I made a long path to understand the truth he revealed from hateful denial to inner consent.
Well, I'm not.
ja jestem Polakiem i zaskakuje mnie determinacja Żydów by uczynić Polaków sprawcami... czy nie powinno im zależeć na poznaniu prawdy? dokończyć ekshumację by nie oskarżać niewinnych? bo chyba takich Żydów tam zamordowano? z jakiego powodu szkalować ich pamięć fałszywymi oskarżeniami??? i co ciekawe robią to ich rodacy! nie ma żadnych dowodów na sprawstwo Polaków tej zbrodni... jeśli nie ma dowodów to jest niewinność! a mówienie o sprawstwie oszczerstwem!