By, Joshua Drossman

As human beings, we have a responsibility to narrate the past as it was; not as we’d like it to be and certainly not as we believe it should’ve been. It is true that sometimes the past is complicated, sometimes it doesn’t show someone in the most favorable light, and sometimes it is simply ugly, but it is history nonetheless.

Polish President Andrzej Duda recently signed a controversial Holocaust bill into law that would make it illegal to implicate Poland in complicity of the crimes committed by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. The purpose of this article, one written from the perspective of an American, a Jew, a Philanthropist, and a teen, is not to contest the legitimacy of Poland’s claim; it is in fact true that Poland offered significant resistance to German occupation throughout the war. Rather, I am are here to talk about the danger of silencing information and opinions, regardless of their merit, because it is then when we allow history, ourselves, and our future to be corrupted