3 resign from Auschwitz museum board after right-wing leader's appointment
Hindustan TimesThree members of an advisory council for the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum in Poland have resigned after the government appointed a former Polish prime minister Beata Szydlo, a top member of the country's right-wing ruling party, to serve on the council. Culture minister Piotr Glinski recently appointed Szydlo to a four-year term on the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum Council, a nine-member body made up of Poles who meet once a year to advise the museum's director. “I don’t want to be on the same council with a major politician of the ruling party today.” Krajewski is a co-creator of a post-World War II history section at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw and a co-founder of the Polish Council of Christians and Jews. After the Law and Justice party took power in 2015, its leaders launched what they described as a “historical policy offensive” aimed at building national pride in the nation's past.
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