Bogdan Bialek, right, and Michal Jaskulski during a 2016 discussion in Warsaw about the film made about his interfaith efforts in Poland. (Courtesy of the makers of “Bogdan’s Journey”)
(JTA) — The Catholic journalist Bogdan Bialek is used to being called a traitor in Poland for his commemorations of Jewish victims of a 1946 pogrom in his city of Kielce.
For over a decade he has promoted awareness of and atonement for the murders, violating taboos that regard the subject as an “open wound” in Polish history. Bialek has braved hate speech to achieve unprecedented developments, including commemorative marches in Kielce and …read more
Source: JTA
