A Holocaust documentary has become a target of the far right in Poland

By all rights Among Neighbors should have been a run-of-the-mill documentary event.

Yoav Potash’s film — which explores a dark chapter of WWII — would normally be part of a reckoning that has been happening across Eastern Europe in recent years. The movie uses both animation and talking heads to examine the well-documented murder of hundreds of liberated Jews by local Poles at the end of the Holocaust, focusing on a few particular stories.

But Poland remains under the sway of the hard right Law and Justice party and its allies. So when the broadcaster, TVP, aired the movie and made it available for streaming last month, it wasn’t long before those politicians swung into action, with a high-ranking official in the office of president Karol Nawrocki saying that “a television station th