About certain article from 》The New Yorker《
28.03.2021 05:30:47
Our commentary on Masha's Gessen article "The Historians Under Attack for Exploring Poland’s Role in the Holocaust", published on Friday in "The New Yorker"
With great interest we have read the article "The Historians Under Attack for Exploring Poland's Role in the Holocaust" by Masha Gessen, published on Friday in "The New Yorker". Apart from accurate characteristic of the efforts by current Polish authorities regarding politics of memory and Holocaust history, we also found in this article the following sentence: "The two historians' legal troubles stem from the Polish government's ongoing effort to exonerate Poland - both ethnic Poles and the Polish state - of the deaths of three million Jews in Poland during the Nazi occupation". This claim can be interpreted as an accusation that ethnic Poles or the Polish state are to blame for the Holocaust. In all ongoing debates about Polish-Jewish relations during the Holocaust - especially those about the degree of responsibility and participation of Poles in denunciation or murdering of Jews - no one ever claimed or claims that Poles or the state are responsible for the death of three million Jews. This is not only inconsistent with historical facts, but simply a lie. In our opinion, this statement from the article in "The New Yorker" should be rephrased for clarification.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-historians-under-attack-for-exploring-polands-role-in-the-holocaust