HOW TO DEAL WITH LOST MEMORY:
HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE LAW IN POLAND (2018) BETWEEN POLITICS AND HISTORY
HOW TO DEAL WITH LOST MEMORY:
HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE LAW IN POLAND (2018) BETWEEN POLITICS AND HISTORY
Author(s): Florin AnghelSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, History, Jewish studies, Political Theory, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), Politics and law, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Politics of History/Memory, Politics and Identity
Published by: Ovidius University Press
Keywords: Poland; Holocaust; Law of Remembrance; Israel; World War II;
Summary/Abstract: At the initiative of the Warsaw Conservative government, the Parliament modified the Law on the organization of the National Memory Institute, by insisting on amending article 55. This issue is about redefining the Holocaust memory, in the sense of penalizing formulas such as the “Polish concentration camps” of the World War Two since Poland did not exist as a state after its occupation by Nazi Germany and the USSR. The amendments were adopted in February 2018 and triggered a series of extremely virulent reactions, especially from Poland’s strategic allies – the US and Israel. In June 2018, by a joint Declaration of the Governments of Israel and Poland, the “Holocaust Law” was again amended and all criminal punitive provisions were eliminated.
Journal: Annals of the Ovidius University of Constanta - Political Science Series
- Issue Year: 8/2019
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 55-73
- Page Count: 19
- Language: English