Waldemar Chrostowski

Chrostowski was born in 1951 at an eponymous village; he was educated at the Pontifical Biblical Institute (1978–1983) and spent a year (1979–1980) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

[1] In October 1997, Henryk Jankowski, a renowned priest-cum-politician claimed that it was undesirable to have a Jewish minority in the Polish government since the nation was "afraid of it".

[2] His remarks drew international attention; Stanisław Musiał, a member of the Committee on Christian-Jewish dialogue, characterized them as Hitlerian-antisemitic and lamented the lack of dissent in Polish society, including from the clergy and politicians.

[6] He has supported the ahistorical notion of Żydokomuna — a notorious antisemitic trope —,[7] and has claimed that the Holocaust was organized in Poland to destroy the good name of Poles than persecute Jews.

[8] Chrostowski has been a critic of Jan T. Gross's historiography — arguing his works to have no relation with "truth" — and opposed to idea that the Poles needed to apologize to the Jews for the Jedwabne pogrom.