Poland and the Memory of the Holocaust

Andrzej Bryk

1990

The Holocaust has always been a problem in Polish postwar consciousness. The real issue is not the question of Polish complicity with the Germans during the war or of whether the Poles did all they could to help save the Jews. The question of complicity is a problem for the collective national conscience of the Austrians, Ukrainians, Latvians…

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Andrzej Bryk

1950–

An expert in American constitutionalism, Andrzej Bryk is director of the Institute of American Studies at the Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Kraków University College. Bryk also lectures and teaches at the department of comparative history at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. He writes about modern Polish history and Polish–Jewish relations.

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