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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.
A Polish court has ordered two Holocaust historians to apologise to the niece of a dead mayor for stating that he collaborated with the Nazis.A court in Warsaw has said the academics “damaged the good
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A Canadian Holocaust scholar and his fellow co-editor have been ordered by a Polish court to apologize to a woman who claimed her deceased uncle had been defamed by their book, which suggested he helped the Nazis murder Jews during the Second World War.
The court in Warsaw ruled Tuesday that University of Ottawa history professor Jan Grabowski and Barbara Engelking, founder of the Polish Centre for Holocaust Research, included “inexact information” in the 2018 two-volume historical work they co-edited,
That day commemorates the liberation of the Nazis’ largest death camp, Auschwitz, by the Red Army.
Jews from more than 20 countries were deported to their deaths there. But in that talk I remarked that the prime focus on Auschwitz obscures a key aspect of the Holocaust that needs to be assimilated: that, on the eve of the Nazi invasion, half of the Jews who would be murdered in the Holocaust were citizens of Poland.
Jews comprised 10 per cent of Poland’s entire pre-war population. In Poland’s capital, Warsaw, and its textile centre, Lodz, Jews formed one-third of the population.