Lowe Family Holocaust and Genocide Education Lecture: “Polish Reaction to the Holocaust: The Never-Ending Controversy and Why Populists Like It”.
Sunday, Sept. 7 | 10 - 11:30 AM AZ time | Zoom
Led by Dariusz Stola (Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences)
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About the lecture: Since the 1980s, Poland has been the scene of major public debates about national reactions to the Holocaust. These debates contributed to the evolution of the collective memory of World War II, but in recent years, they have become a battleground of polarization. In this lecture, Professor Stola of the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw and formerly the director of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw, will review the controversies and highlight a few factors that made them so intense, including the gap between academic and popular understandings of the past and the role of social media.
About Dariusz Stola: Dariusz Stola is a historian, professor at the Institute for Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences. He has authored six and co-edited four books, and published more than a hundred scholarly articles on the political and social history of Poland in the 20th century, the Holocaust, international migrations and the communist regime. In 2014-2019 he was the director of the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews.