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From Silence to Recognition: The Holocaust in Polish Education since 1989
Author(s): Szuchta, Robert
Date: 2007
Topics: Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Holocaust Education, Curriculum, Schools: Non-Jewish, Post-1989
Abstract: This chapter focuses on the implementation of educational reforms since 1989, which aimed to integrate the subject of the Holocaust into Polish schools. It describes textbooks from the first half of the 1990s that were still marred by common stereotypes, such as Jewish passivity in the face of German aggression. It also examines textbooks since the late 1990s representing Jewish reactions to Nazism with more nuance and situating the fate of Poland's Jews in a larger historical context. The chapter discusses the subject of the Holocaust in several schools that reside in the shadow of Polonocentrism and explains how it is treated like an appendage to the dominant history of Polish heroism and martyrdom under the German occupation. It points out that the positive shift in attitude in Polish schools, where Polish teachers no longer ask if the Holocaust should be taught, but how to teach it.
The intricacies of education about the Holocaust in Poland. Ten years after the Jedwabne debate, what can Polish school students learn about the Holocaust in history classes?
Author(s): Ambrosewicz-Jacobs, Jolanta; Szuchta, Robert
Date: 2014
Topics: Holocaust Education, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Jewish - Non - Jewish Relations, Teaching and Pedagogy
Abstract: In many European countries, disparities have grown between history and the memory of the Holocaust. Debates on Polish–Jewish relations during the Holocaust and empirical studies in the field of education reveal that there is a gap between research and education. The emphasis in this paper is on the content of new history textbooks published after the 2008 educational reforms in Poland.