Peter Bielik
Peter Bielik | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Slovak |
| Known for | Controversial statements about Holocaust survivors |
Peter Bielik is a Slovak historian, who withdrew his candidacy for director of the National Memory Institute due to controversy over his remarks blaming Jewish Holocaust survivors for the September 1945 Topoľčany pogrom.
Life
Bielik was an editor of
Following the death of
Bielik presents Slovaks who stole from Jews during the war as victims of the Jews' efforts to regain their property, and the Jews as ungrateful to the majority of Slovaks to whom they supposedly owed their lives. His perspective was criticized by the contemporary Slovak media, which identified him as a supporter of the Slovak State.
In 2008, Bielik published a book titled Masoneria – nieszczęście naszych czasów ("Freemasonry — the plague of our time"), in which he blamed
References
Citations
- ^ Nedelsky 2016, pp. 973, 976.
- ^ Nedelsky 2016, pp. 983–986.
- ^ Nedelsky 2016, p. 976.
- ^ a b Nedelsky 2016, pp. 976–977.
- ^ Kamenec 2002, p. 130.
- ^ Lesná, Ľuba (8 February 2007). "Quo Vadis Matica slovenská?". Delet. Archived from the original on 8 July 2018. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
- ^ Nedelsky 2016, p. 978.
- ^ Franek, Jaro. "Malé slovenské škandály" [A small Slovak scandal] (in Czech). Terezín Initiative. Archived from the original on 28 May 2017. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
- ^ Nedelsky 2016, pp. 979–980.
- Focus(in Polish). Retrieved 11 October 2018.
Sources
- ISBN 83-88526-15-4.
- Nedelsky, Nadya (2016). ""The Struggle for the Memory of the Nation": Post-Communist Slovakia and its World War II Past". Human Rights Quarterly. 38 (4): 969–992. S2CID 151419238.