Chief Political Correspondent Dana Bash interviewed Polish President Duda on 6 April 2022 at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw to discuss the conflict in Ukraine. At 38:50 into the interview, Ms. Bash stated the following to President Duda: Let me ask you about the issue of antisemitism historically in Poland and how it may relate…

An 11 December 2022 article in The Guardian written by Sir Lindsay Hoyle, the Speaker of the House of Commons, is a glaring example of how a major omission of historical fact about Poland serves as an egregious insult to Poles in the United Kingdom and United States. In his article, After eighty years, there…

The information below is an analysis written by Jan Peczkis, who has analyzed over 1,700 works by Jewish and non-Jewish authors on historical and contemporary Polish-Jewish interrelations. We feature Jan’s database website on our Resources webpage in the section titled “Polish-Jewish Relations”. The article titled “Jan Peczkis’s 1,700 book reviews will improve your understanding of…

A familiar myth has it that Poles murdered Polish Jews in the small town of Jedwabne during World War 2. This fiction continues to be spread by Polonophobes and is unwittingly accepted as true by the uninformed. One of the disseminators of this fiction is the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, which proclaims…

The following Letter to the Editor was written by PASI EDU President Gene Sokolowski in response to the article “Poland is in denial about its role in the Holocaust – it was both victim and perpetrator†by Rivkah Brown, which was published in The Independent on 22 January 2020. The article is at: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/poland-holocaust-denial-antisemitism-ambassador-arkadyrzegocki-a9297106.html. Dear Sir/Madam,…

[NOTE: The following was sent to the Boston Review in June 2021 with the request that it be published in response to Mikhal Dekel’s article below. The Boston Review refused to publish it, stating that “it didn’t fit with our purposeâ€.] Mikhal Dekel, in her 1 June article in the Boston Review titled “Poland’s Current…

How Virginia’s educational, executive, and legislative authorities and the U.S Department of Education enabled the suppression of historical fact and ignored an embarrassing deception. Part 1 – Asking the Department of Education to Correct Flawed Standards of LearningFalsified and Flawed Standards in Virginia’s 2015 Standards of Learning March-June 2022. Gene Sokolowski’s efforts to correct Virginia’s…

PASI EDU’s reply to Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois who calls critics of the so-called graphic novel MAUS “extremists†PASI EDU’s letter to the Senator points out why Art Spiegelman’s comic book MAUS is clearly unsuitable and unacceptable as instructional material in American public-school curricula. Our letter to the Senator is provided below. To date,…

Masha Gessen’s 25 March 2021 article “The Historians Under Attack for Exploring Poland’s Role in the Holocaust†published in The New Yorker on 25 March 2021 caused considerable outrage from Poles and Polish Jews alike by presenting an all-too-familiar recitation of anti-Polish falsehoods. Dr. Piotr CywiÅ„ski, an historian and director of the Auschwitz Museum and…