Article: LETTERS.(Letter to the Editor)

Poles and Jews, Separate Deaths?

To the Editors:

While the news report "Polish Passions Damage Two Works" in your March 2001 issue is laudably written, it nevertheless contains a significantly misleading statement. I am referring to the parenthetical remark in the discussion of the attack on Piotr Ulanski's installation The Nazis: "(Six million Poles, approximately one fifth of the country's entire population, died under Nazi occupation.)" This figure of "six million" wrongly includes three million Jews.

As historian Iwona Irwin-Zarecka has observed, "the persistent commemoration of six million Polish victims of genocide--a figure which ...

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