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As the world prepares to mark Yom ha-Shoah on Monday night, April 17, thousands of Jewish visitors have descended on Poland for the annual March of the Living. On Tuesday morning, more than 150 Canadian students and adultsincluding seven Holocaust survivorswill be taking part in the large silent march between Auschwitz and Birkenau death camps near Krakow.

The commemoration comes amidst a heated debate over the way the Polish government wants its own version of Holocaust history told. Since 2018, a new law has made it illegal for researchers and academics to say that Poles were collaborators with the Nazis, or that they helped hunt down, round up and murder the countrys three million Jews.

According to criticsincluding Ottawa history professor Jan GrabowksiPolands new feel-good narrative downplays its wartime responsibility in favour of a nationalistic fable that portrays Poles as victims who even helped the Jews.

Grabowski joins The CJN Daily to explain his latest battleground against Holocaust distortion: one thats now taking place on Wikipedia.

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