Grzegorz Berendt

[1] In May 2017, Berendt was appointed as the Deputy Director of the Museum of the Second World War (MWS), replacing Janusz Marszalec and Piotr M.

[1] From 2007 to 2008 he was a coordinator of the INDEX research project, focusing on investigating the cases of Nazi-German reprisals against the Polish citizens who helped Jews during the Holocaust.

[6][7] According to Joanna Tokarska-Bakir, on a conference marking the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising that she attended, Berendt disagreed with Jan T. Gross' assertion that the Polish bystanders were passively complicit in the Holocaust and cited the Poles' own "struggle to survive" as an exculpatory factor;[9] he then went on to suggest that queries on the complicity of Polish bystanders might just as well be reciprocated with questions on why Jews in hiding were not interested in the poverty of those sheltering them.

[8] Tokarska-Bakir found Berendt to have created an unsubstantiated false equivalence between the Jews and Poles under the Nazis in his bid to challenge the very existence of moral obligations in times of war.

[5][9] Adam Leszczyński notes that within the IPN Berendt is considered one of those most keen to downplay the extent of Poles' complicity in the Holocaust;[11]