Before anyone corrects my geography, please note that I am well aware that Jedwabne is in Poland, and not Alabama, although both communities are in the midst of denying Jewish history and attempting to create false truths to respond to political pressure.

Regarding the Polish town of Jedwabne, where historians agree that the townspeople killed most of their Jewish neighbors during World War II, a brand-new “information center” ds arisen intent on denying the crime, according to a report by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA).

The deceptively named “information center” is housed in two shipping containers that stand taller than anything else at the memorial site. On the side of one container, in Polish, are the words “The earth doesn’t lie” — a slogan promoted by those who believe that exhuming the site would exonerate the Poles of Jedwabne of the guilt they bear for their actions there during World War II.

The second shipping container demands “conditions for seeking and defending historical truth,” which it says are “in Poland’s national interest.”  Both containers were installed earlier this month and celebrated by Wojciech Sumlinski, a right-wing Polish activist.  Last year, he took credit for placing seven boulders near Jedwabne’s official memorial, bearing plaques that deny Polish responsibility for the pogroms and claim that Jews historically conspired against Poles. Sumlinski repeatedly targets Warsaw’s relatively new Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews as well, claiming that even the name Polin, which is Yiddish for Poland, is a........

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