Yoav Potash’s award-winning film “Among Neighbors,” about Holocaust survivors who returned to murderous neighbors in their Polish hometowns, is qualified to be considered for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, but certain parts of Polish society are railing against the film.

When the Polish public broadcast network TVP aired the movie and made it available for streaming last month, right-wing politicians reacted angrily, with Agnieszka Jedrzak, the undersecretary to the Polish president, attacking the film on X.

She called the film “anti-Polish historical manipulation,” and said that “a television station that has ‘Polish’ in its name should not have it on its airwaves.”

Jedrzak’s tweets against the film were viewed 334,000 times as of December 7.

Others vowed to strip TVP of its license.

Speaking from his home in California’s Bay Area, Potash assessed that the extreme nationalist faction in Poland was trying to use the film to score political points and get back at the more center-left party currently in power in Poland.

Poland’s government has been center-left for the last two years under Prime Minister Donald Tusk, but the ultra-conservative Law and Justice party is still popular, winning more seats than any other in the 2023 parliamentary election.

Conservative Karol Nawrocki, who made Holocaust revisionism part of his campaign, was inaugurated in August as Poland’s new president. His party has promoted historical........

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