Poland versus History (HKJFF2025)

In Poland Versus History, acclaimed historian Jan T. Gross becomes a lightning rod in Poland's reckoning with the past when he reveals that the 1941 Jedwabne pogrom—long blamed on the Nazis—was carried out by local Polish residents. His findings spark political backlash and a culture war, as scholars challenge decades of silence, denial, and sanitized history against a state determined to defend its heroic national narrative.