[4] The rescue of Jews by Poles during the Holocaust suppressed by the Soviet-backed regime in an attempt to discredit the Polish resistance movements as reactionary has also been reasserted.
It helps the descendants of Holocaust survivors in a variety of legal matters (communal as well as personal) such as, in the process of recovery and restoration of property once owned by Jewish communities and nationalized in communist Poland.
Kraków became home to the Judaica Foundation,[7] which has sponsored a wide range of cultural and educational programs on Jewish themes for a predominantly Polish audience.
Government relations between Poland and Israel are steadily improving, resulting in the mutual visits of presidents and the ministers of foreign affairs.
In April 2001, during the 13th March of the Living from Auschwitz to Birkenau honouring victims of the Holocaust, several hundred local citizens joined the 2,000 marchers from Israel and other countries.
Government officials participating in the event included Members of Parliament, the province's governor, Oświęcim's mayor and the chairman of city council.
Schoolchildren, boy scouts, the Polish-Israeli Friendship Society,[9] and the Polish Union of Jewish Students (PUSZ) also participated in the march.
In April 2002, during the 14th March of the Living [1] from Auschwitz to Birkenau to honor victims of the Holocaust, several hundred citizens joined 1,500 marchers from Israel and other countries.
In a 2005 survey commissioned by Anti-Defamation League from New York in 12 European countries, asking about selective stereotypes among 500 callers each, Polish respondents averaged 52% at question No.
[10] According to a Polish survey conducted in 2005,[11] by CBOS institute (target of critical evaluations themselves by the media),[12] in which Poles were asked to assess their attitudes toward 32 nationalities representing different European and non-European countries, 45% claimed to feel antipathy towards Jews (steadily decreasing) with 18% to feel sympathy (fluctuating by up to 10 percentage points annually; in 1997 it was 28%), while 29% felt impartial and 8% were undecided.
"[14] According to Alina Cała, in 1968 the Moczarite faction transposed the Jewish victims of the Holocaust with their persecutors, accusing the Jews of support for the Nazis.
Moreover, the survey found that people who believed that Jews are a collectively intentional group that aims at dominating the world were the ones who would most strongly oppose Jewish rights to buy land, to open businesses, or to regain their lost properties.
People who hold such beliefs are also unwilling to vote for a political candidate with Jewish origins or to accept a Jew in their closest environment.
[18] Towards the end of 2014, a study conducted by Warsaw University Center for Research on Prejudice found out that more than half of Polish youth visit anti-Semitic websites that glorify Hitler and the Nazi era.
[25][citation needed] The lead of the article "The Resurgence of Antisemitic Discourse in Poland" by Rafał Pankowski says: "The surge of hostility to Jews and the Jewish State in the Polish media and politics in early 2018 took many observers by surprise.