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A growing collection of in-depth interviews with people of all ages and backgrounds, whose stories about the legacy and changing nature of Yiddish language and culture offer a rich and complex chronicle of Jewish identity.

"Our Responsibility as Poles is to Face the Truth": The International Perception of Poland, Anti-Semitism, and Remembering the Holocaust in Poland Today

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Katarzyna Leszczyńska—Evangelist Jewish studies scholar and March of Life volunteer who grew up near Auschwitz—discusses some of the curriculum of Polish schools and some of the difficulty Poland faces in remembering the Holocaust.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Katarzyna Leszczyńska.

This excerpt is in English.

Katarzyna Leszczyńska was born in Oświęcim, Poland in 1989.