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How the Teaching About the Holocaust Evolved in Polish Schools

Summary/Abstract: The scope and interpretation of historical events that were taught about in Polish schools under the Communist rule was based by and large on the guidelines adopted by activists of the Polish Patriots’ Union while World War II was still being fought. The topics related to recent history included the questions of the extermination of the Jews. The curricula, drafted back in the USSR, were written by the pre-war teacher and Communist activist Żanna Kormanowa, who played a major role in devising the reformed school structure in Poland, consistent with Soviet guidelines. It could have been the result of her efforts and those of her leftist activist friends that the questions of the Holocaust appeared in the teaching curricula in post-war Poland, even if there were mostly just laconic mentions. This can actually be considered somewhat surprising, considering that the Holocaust was all but ignored in the teaching model adopted in the Soviet Union.

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