The Polish government is continuing its policy of minimizing the role of Jewish resistance and Jewish suffering under the Nazi occupation of Poland. A recent symposium in Warsaw on “Society and Resistance in Warsaw During the War and Occupation” virtually ignored the role played by Jewish ghetto fighters, according to a report in the Yiddish weekly. Folkstimme. Only one of the 17 papers delivered at the symposium dealt with the Warsaw ghetto and the others had only “fragments” on the Jews of Warsaw during the Nazi era, Folkstimme reported. The battle of the Warsaw ghetto was totally Ignored and the Jewish Historical Institute was not even represented at the symposium, according to the weekly.
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