How has Communism affected the young Polish perception of the Holocaust?
I think that it has to do a lot with growing up under Communism and we are not feeling guilty because we didn’t realise that there was a true tragedy. First of all, we are educated like that, that it doesn’t bother us. It doesn’t bother us as a young generation and we are separated from the past, from WW2. And the second reason is, nowadays, we want, we wish to be completely different from the generations of our grandparents and parents and that’s what, I think, make us un-guilty. Q: Please tell your Grandmother’s story. The story I want to tell you my grandmother told to me because I asked her for it. I asked her to tell me something she remembers according to Jews form WW2. And why I ask her about it: My first real contacts with Jews was one year ago when I came to Warsaw to the [Jewish] community and that’s where I met, for the first time, real Jews. That’s where I realised that Jews want to see themselves as a different nation. For all my life I felt that Jewish were Polish with an
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