WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Three members of an advisory council for the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum in Poland have resigned after the government appointed a former Polish prime minister from the country’s right-wing ruling party to serve on the council. Poland’s culture minister recently appointed Beata Szydlo to a four-year term on the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum Council. The nine-member body is made up of Poles who meet once a year to advise the museum’s director. A philosopher who was about to begin his third four-year term resigned Tuesday to protest what he called the “politicization” of the council. Two historians followed. The culture minister said he was astounded and argued that it is the resignations themselves that risk politicizing the place of memory.
