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Each day the world gets a little bit less free. The latest bad news comes from Poland, where a Polish-Canadian historian is being punished for writing honestly about the Holocaust.
A Polish court has ordered University of Ottawa professor Jan Grabowski and his co-editor, Barbara Engelking, to issue a public apology for including witness testimony in a book about Poland during the Holocaust that they edited.
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By Mark Wegierski web posted December 14, 2020
It has to be said at the outset, that the lack of meaningful intellectual and cultural infrastructures for the Polish-Canadian community is particularly troubling. While the work of Professor Tamara Trojanowska, who has taught Polish Language and Literature at the University of Toronto has been considerably helpful (such as the major international conference on Polish themes that took place in February 2006), Professor Piotr Wrobel, who holds the Chair of Polish History at the University of Toronto, has been seen by some as rather cool to the core concerns of the Polish-Canadian community.