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2010-09-30

The Righteous about the Holocaust

Yannick Haenel, Bruno Tessarech and Andrzej Kunert will participate in a discussion entitled “The Holocaust – an Inconvenient Truth” which will take place in the Warsaw Uprising Museum on October 4th, 2010 at 6 pm. The actions of Righteous who informed the world about the tragedy of Jewish nation and the attitude of the Americans towards the Holocaust will be the key points of the discussion.

Yannick Haenel is the author of a book arousing big controversy, entitled “Jan Karski. A Novel”. Its central figure is the legendary courier of the Polish underground. From January 1940 he had been participating in courier missions of the underground Polish authorities, he was in Warsaw ghetto and camp. Many times he appealed to the representatives of the Allied authorities, asking them to save the Jews.

In his book Heanel depicts a lonely Karski, whose testimony has not been considered by the Allies with due attention. In the last part of the book, appears a fictious monologue of Jan Karski, in which Roosevelt is presented as completely indifferent to the account and to the news about extermination camps.

Bruno Tessarech is the author of the book „The Guards” in which he presented the figure of Gustav Schroeder who transported hundreds of Jewish refugees on the ship “Saint Louis”. He put into numerous ports, where no one met him. Tessarech, similarly to Haenel, combines historical facts with literary fiction.

This method of combining reality with fiction and literature with history still arouses big controversy. Undoubtedly, during the meeting Haenel and Tessarech will try to prove to their audience that the practice they have chosen is both efficient and justified.

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