Poland’s government offers to take over from a local authority the responsibility for preserving the grounds of the former Nazi death camp Treblinka, where 870,000 people were murdered.
The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage makes the offer in a letter it sent last week to the regional government of Mazovia, the Rzeczpospolita daily reports Sunday.
From the Depths, an organization which works on Holocaust commemoration in Eastern Europe, welcomes the move, which comes amid a government-led campaign that is widely seen as designed to highlight Polish victimhood during World War II and counter claims that Poles were complicit in the Holocaust.
The Holocaust memorial constructed at Treblinka, the former Nazi death camps in eastern Poland (photo credit: Caroline Sturdy Colls)
“It is very promising to see that the Polish government, along with the public international campaign against calling the death camps ‘Polish Death camps,’ have also stood to take further responsibility for those sites on current-day Polish soil,” From the Depths Founder Jonny Daniels tells JTA. He has criticized Polish authorities for perceived neglect of some Holocaust sites.
Treblinka, Daniels said, “has been mismanaged by regional authorities, with little funds going into security or upkeep of the site and visitors were unable to get a true understanding of what happened there.”
— JTA
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