So Many Questions: The Development of Holocaust Education in Post-Communist Poland
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Abstract
This chapter looks at the results of a national survey of Polish students in 1998, which indicates that the students' knowledge about the Holocaust is characterized by high levels of ignorance, misperception, confusion, and defensiveness. It mentions that students disagreed that Jews suffered more than Poles during the Second World War and inflated the degree of Polish assistance to Jews. It also talks about educators in post-communist Poland that responded to the students by undertaking a significant expansion of Holocaust education. The chapter presents abundant evidence of the promising development in schools and university departments, including newly founded initiatives throughout Polish civil society. It cites how the Stockholm Declaration was signed by the Polish government in January 2000 to allow schools to teach the Holocaust in schools.
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Holocaust Memorials Holocaust Commemoration Attitudes to Jews Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial Surveys
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20
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271-304
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9781904113058
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Link to article (paywalled), So Many Questions: The Development of Holocaust Education in Post-Communist Poland
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So Many Questions: The Development of Holocaust Education in Post-Communist Poland. 2007: 271-304. https://archive.jpr.org.uk/10.3828/liverpool/9781904113058.003.0011
