Image taken at the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Credit: Snappy Goat)
Not all research is at stake, however, only work that reveals the role of ethnic Poles in the persecution of Poland’s Jews.
This year, for the first time in history, an individual used Poland’s “Holocaust Law” to sue in a civil court. This was also the first time that the law, which forbids blaming the Polish nation for the crimes of the Holocaust, was used against academics two Polish Holocaust historians, Jan Grabowski and Barbara Engelking. Grabowski and Engelking are co-editors of
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Scholars fear impact of Poland s new law on the Holocaust
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Polish Court Orders Historians to Apologize Over Holocaust Book
WARSAW A Warsaw court ruled on Tuesday that two historians tarnished the memory of a Polish villager in a book about the Holocaust and must apologize, in a case some academics warn could deter impartial research into Poles’ actions during World War Two.
More than seven decades on, the conflict remains a live political issue in Poland, where the ruling nationalists say studies showing complicity by some Poles in the killing of Jews by Nazi Germany are an attempt to dishonor a country that suffered immensely in the conflict.
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