Poland commemorates Poles who saved Jews

Poland is building a museum dedicated to the Poles who helped Jews during the Holocaust in the village of Markowa in south-eastern Poland. The conservative daily Rzeczpospolita welcomes the initiative: "Unfortunately we know decidedly too little and also talk too little about the Poles who helped Jews during the Second World War. ... A book by the historian Mateusz Szpytma of the Institute of National Remembrance about the Ulmów family recently appeared - under the title The Righteous and their World. Then there is the documentary Świat Józefa [The world of Joseph] directed by Rafał Wieczyński. Maciej Pawlicki has also made the film Życie za życie [Life for Life] which is based on ten documented accounts by Poles who saved Jews. … And Markowa, whose inhabitants managed to save a number of Jews, is a symbol for the best moral aspect of the not always easy relations between Jews and Poles."

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