Memoria [EN] No. 39 (12/2020) | Page 27

Unfortunately, the authors of the exhibition have not avoided a serious mistake. One of the sportsmen is a Polish skier Bronisław Czech, prisoner of the first transport of Poles to Auschwitz (no. 359), who perished in the camp on 5 June 1944. He was presented as "Polish Jewish sportsman". After the intervention of the Auschwitz Museum, the adjective "Jewish" was removed, but without explaining it in the content of the exhibition, the viewer will still learn about his story in the context of Jewish athletes murdered in the Holocaust.