| A panel discussion on modern history of Poland is scheduled for Friday 22 September 2006 at 4.00 pm, in the Parliamentary Theatrette at Macquarie St in Sydney, sponsored by the Australian International Research Institute.
Bookings essential: valhugon@yahoo.com.au
All welcome: community leaders, public speaker, journalists, librarians, educators and students.
The media refer, frequently, to the Second World War. Characteristics of both European totalitarian regimes are used as a benchmark to discuss current events. “Are we living in Australia, in Stalinist Russia, or in Nazi Germany? I wonder.” – was found on 20 July 2006 under heading ‘Suburban censorship' in a letter to the editor of ‘Mosman Daily’.
The same newspaper published on 17 November 2005 a frustrated statement over new laws governing property auctions: “It’s like living in a Gestapo or communist regime.” Recently, President George W. Bush irritated Islamic believers throughout the world by calling Muslim militants in the Middle East: “fascists”.
The media promote a historical lie by referring notoriously to Auschwitz as “a Polish death camp”.
In view of a global confusion, there was collated over a thousand references for a bibliography of Holocaust-Denial Literature
www.york.cunyedu/~drobnick/holbib4.html
whilst Jeffrey A. Ross expressed his outrage in the paper ‘Holocaust Denial: The Vanguard Conspiracy of the Contemporary Hate Movement’.
Senator Gary Humphries had the courage to take the floor in the Federal Parliament in Canberra, in an effort to tame the avalanche of misstatements and biased allegations that have disturbed and misled the community. Having travelled widely around Europe in his younger years, he has agreed to come to Sydney, now, in order to share his research perspective and answer any questions from the audience.
Dr Waldemar Niemotko will give an eyewitness account of daily life overseas, as he is a victim and survivor of the totalitarian regimes of Hitler and Stalin. He was one of those who provided an unarmed resistance by means of preserving Polish traditional, spiritual and cultural values.
Still he had to use his wits in eluding the secret police, when contacting leaders of the opposition groups, at home and abroad. No surprise, then, his present enthusiasm on the topic of Australian values. Waldemar is a strong believer in freedom of speech because he was denied this for too many years labouring under the yoke of foreign, oppressive ideologies.
Recently, he acknowledged a receipt of a letter signed in person on 9 June 2006 by the German Federal Minister of Justice, Brigitte Zypries, encouraging him to do a research. He has also found in Israel, Lithuania, Russia and Ukraine those who share his reconciliatory views on trying to identify and discuss hard facts from the past.
Australian International Research Institute is a not-for-profit cultural association, registered under the NSW Charitable Fundraising Act 1991 (No CFN 13723). Its existence since 1992 is marked by multifaceted contribution to community harmony, by facilitating inter-human relations and stimulating inter-faith dialogue.
Dr Waldemar Niemotko
President, Australian International Research Institute | 
