Marek Baterowicz : Blasphemy

This despicable act of “banicion” of heroes from past shows the utmost hatred of Donald Tusk and his supporters towards Poland. And to us, she's a painful scar in the heart... What the manager of the Gdańsk museum did is specified a repulsive forgery of past that it becomes close to historical blasphemy and as if ridiculed with values recognized by these large figures. And, of course, he is an undeserved insult to Poles and Polish people, who in the years of war and Nazi business were almost helpless victims, and yet he was able to show solidarity and aid Jews as "people in mortal danger and citizens of the Republic" as we read in many post-war testimonies of Janina Hera (W-wa, Neriton 2014). In this valuable dictionary we find thousands of evidence of Polish empathy in relation to threatened extermination of Jews. In hard conditions of occupation, however, Poles utilized all chance - despite draconian repression - to aid Jews. Even Maximilian Kolbe, accused by prof. Machcewicz of anti-Semitism, accepted into his monastery in Niepokalanów a 1000 and a half Jews in December 1939. And in Auschwitz he comforted them and shared with them the rations of bread, due to the fact that he loved everyone, as Sigmund Gorson said, and another prisoner Eddie Gastfriend mentioned that the gathering with Maximilian Kolbe meant the conclusion of a covenant written in blood between Christians and Jews (op. cit., p.257/8). And I don't think it's essential to remind you of Witold Pilecki's mission, which is widely known in the world. besides about the Ulm family, blessed by Pope Francis. We besides know another families murdered for helping Jews. And in so many another sources we read about the Polish sacrifice and concealment of Jews, e.g. only 1 gathering of Franciscan Sisters of the household of Mary managed to store at least 500 children and 250 adults from hiding Jews (vide prof. Jerzy Kłoczowski, “From hermitage to community”, W-wa, Reader 1987, p.281). Thus the manager of the Gdańsk museum almost blasphemously in an effort to justify” his unfortunate decision to remove the images of heroes. They all paid their lives for their altruism and for their neighbor's love. And already the symbol is almost St. Maximilian Kolbe against another people during this cruel war, a war that was the victim of Poland – captures, camps and mass shootings, and in the east slaughter and deportations to Siberia. Not only that they attacked us from both sides – after the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact – they inactive want to detest and discredit our Christian attitude towards the persecuted. The futile effort, due to the fact that even on antipodes – after the exhibition about Poles saving Jews – was said in the NSW parliament that Poles are a nation of heroic virtues.

Marek Baterovich

PS. respective times I tried to sign a protest at: give back the heroes.pl, unfortunately there was a message: Your connection is not private! And then nothing...