January 27, 2021
By JANEK SKARZYNSKI/Getty Im.
Representatives of the Polish Association of the Righteous Among the Nations pay tribute in front of a monument dedicated to the victims of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
On this Holocaust Remembrance Day, we, sons and grandsons of survivors, write to protest the falsification of history being perpetrated in our name at the projected Museum of the Warsaw Ghetto, due to open in 2023 for the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
The Museum’s published mission is “To disseminate knowledge about the life, struggle and extermination of the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto and in other ghettos in German-occupied Poland.” But the museum proposes simply to abandon the true story of the ghetto in midstream.
The coronavirus pandemic has been “deliberately exploited” by people seeking to spread conspiracy theories and instil hatred, the chief executive of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust (HMDT) has warned.
Olivia Marks-Woldman urged people to “take responsibility” for their words, and to stand up against those seeking to create tensions.
It came after a “deeply worrying” period which saw riots, including those unrelated to the pandemic, across America and beyond.
They included disturbances last summer following the death of George Floyd in police custody, and the storming of the US Capitol earlier this month after then-president Donald Trump used allegedly inflammatory words to stir up his supporters.
Henry Borynski had a rather colorful life even before he became a great unsolved mystery. Born in a rural village in Poland in 1910, he went on to become a Roman Catholic priest in 1938 before shortly after escaping from the then German-occupied Poland in 1940. He settled in Bradford, in Yorkshire, England, where he first served with the Polish Second Corps in 1946 and went on to became Roman Catholic chaplain to the Polish community there, replacing a Father Boleslaw Martynellis. At the time there were about 6,000 refugees from Poland living in Bradford, the largest Polish emigre community in the North of England, and besides his usual priestly duties Borynski became well-known for his firebrand anti-communist sermons, protesting heavily against alleged Soviet activities and spies in Bradford in 1952, with rumors flying at the time that the Soviet Embassy was secretly infiltrating the Polish community and trying to pressure them into returning to their own country. It is unknown jus