{"id":7924,"date":"2018-01-15T23:41:55","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T23:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=7924"},"modified":"2018-01-15T23:41:55","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T23:41:55","slug":"polands-museum-of-the-second-world-war-battlefield-of-history-and-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=7924","title":{"rendered":"Poland`s Museum of the Second World War: Battlefield of History and Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Na Europskom sveu\u010dili\u0161nom institutu (EUI) u Firenci u \u010detvrtak, 18. sije\u010dnja 2018. Pawel Machcewicz odr\u017eat \u0107e predavanje o Muzeju Drugog svjetskog rata u Gdanjsku otvorenom 2017. o kojem se u Poljskoj vodio intenzivni simboli\u010dki rat na polju povijesnog pam\u0107enja i politike povijesti.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>EUI<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dates: Thu 18 Jan 2018 17.00 &#8211; 19.00<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk was opened on March 23, 2017. It is the largest historical museum in Poland and one of largest historical museums in Europe and the world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, it also turned out to be the biggest battlefield in the realm of historical memory and the politics of history in Poland. This project evoked heated debates and controversies and the very opening of the museum was severely fraught, and indeed almost didn\u2019t happen, because of the counteractions by the current Polish government. The concept of the Museum of the Second World War was from the very beginning attacked by the nationalist right-wing as \u201ctoo European\u201d, \u201cpseudo-universalistic\u201d and \u201cnot Polish enough\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The crusade against the Museum could be seen as a part of a nationalistic rejection of the European perspective and part of xenophobia growing nowadays in Poland. Such an anti-European and isolationist reaction is not exclusively a Polish phenomenon, it is also happening in other European countries, but in Poland it has become especially acute and the ongoing battle around the Museum epitomizes this trend.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pawel Machcewicz is professor of recent history at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, and currently Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. He specialises in the 20th century Polish and European history, particularly the history of the WWII, communist dictatorship, emigration, anti-communist dissent, memory and retributive justice. His recent publications include Der Beginn der Vernichtung. Zum Mord an den Juden in Jedwabne und Umgebung im Sommer 1941 (co-author, Osnabr\u00fcck 2004), Rebellious Satellite Poland 1956 (Stanford 2009) and Poland&#8217;s War on Radio Free Europe, 1950-1989 (Standford 2015). Professor Machcewicz has been an adviser to the Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk and from 2008 to April 2017 the founding director of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Location:Sala degli Stemmi 1st Floor, V.Sa.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Affiliation:Department of History and CivilizationHistorical Archives<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Type:Lecture<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Organiser:Professor Pavel Kolar (EUI) Dieter Cornel Schlenker (EUI &#8211; Historical Archives of the EC) Alexander Etkind (European University Institute) Pieter Judson (EUI &#8211; Department of History and Civilization)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speaker:Prof. Pawel Machcewicz (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eui.eu\/events\/detail?eventid=143234\">https:\/\/www.eui.eu\/events\/detail?eventid=143234<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Iz medija o kontroverzama u vezi muzeja:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tportal.hr\/kultura\/clanak\/kako-su-poljski-nacionalisti-napravili-skandal-od-muzeja-drugog-svjetskog-rata-u-gdanjsku-20170407\">https:\/\/www.tportal.hr\/kultura\/clanak\/kako-su-poljski-nacionalisti-napravili-skandal-od-muzeja-drugog-svjetskog-rata-u-gdanjsku-20170407<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kulturpunkt.hr\/content\/politike-sjecanja-i-ponovnog-ispisivanja-povijesti\">http:\/\/www.kulturpunkt.hr\/content\/politike-sjecanja-i-ponovnog-ispisivanja-povijesti<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"XqzgKFCD49\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilten.org\/?p=18436\">Muzeolo\u0161ko demontiranje Europe<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilten.org\/?p=18436&#038;embed=true#?secret=XqzgKFCD49\" data-secret=\"XqzgKFCD49\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"Embedded WordPress Post\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Gdansk.jpg?fit=800%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":53705,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=53705","url_meta":{"origin":7924,"position":0},"title":"Povjesni\u010dar s Hrvatskog instituta za povijest dobitnik je presti\u017ene Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship na Europskom sveu\u010dili\u0161nom institutu (EUI) u Firenci","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"25. svibnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"Izme\u0111u listopada i prosinca 2026. dr. sc. 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