The BBC News website tells the story of Bogomila, a Polish woman who just made a shocking discovery about her own past:
This summer, her 67-year-old mother Barbara finally revealed her secret. She is a Jewish child of the Holocaust. Suddenly, at the age of 37, Bogomila realised she was Jewish, too.
Believe it or not, stories like this aren’t so uncommon in Poland. Even today, many Jewish survivors continue to hide their Jewishness. Why? Let’s just say that the Polish people aren’t exactly full of love for their Jewish fellow citizens. But at least one Jew thinks it’s not so bad:
“I wouldn’t call it anti-semitism,” says the President of the Union of Jewish communities of Poland Piotr Kadlcik. “It’s more a broad dislike of Jews.
Does Mr. Kadlcik realize how funny that sounds? I can easily imagine some ignorant bigot (say, Archie Bunker) saying, “I ain’t no anti-Semite; I just don’t like Jews.”
Am I the only one who thinks Mr. Kadlcik is in denial?