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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Auschwitz Tripadvisor comments removed as website backtracks
9 May, 2021 08:51 PM
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Tripadvisor has reversed a decision to leave an offensive post on its site for the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum. Photo / Czarek Sokolowski
Tripadvisor has reversed a decision to leave an offensive post on its site for the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum. Photo / Czarek Sokolowski
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Travel website Tripadvisor has removed an insensitive review of the Auschwitz Museum after initially saying it complied with its submission guidelines.
The museum at the site of the Nazi concentration camp in Poland on Thursday tweeted that it had asked the Massachusetts-based travel website to take down a review in which the writer said they went to Auschwitz to test the chamber and called the site fun for the family.
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Old graves at the Jewish Cemetery, one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Europe, on October 22, 2017 in Warsaw, Poland
Following the interview with Krzysztof Bielawski conducted by Matt Lebovic and published by The Times of Israel on March 5, 2021, I would like, as the Deputy Minister of Culture, National Heritage and Sport of the Republic of Poland in charge of, inter alia, the remembrance policy, to take the opportunity to comment on the statements raised in the interview.
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In his monumental 1932 novel “Journey to the End of the Night,” the French writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline wrote that the truly most important things happen undercover. “There is no doubt of this. We know nothing about a person’s real story.”
Ofer Aderet, Haaretz’s history correspondent, thinks he is capable of explaining to us, uninformed readers, the true story of a man, even a difficult and complex story such as the one that took place in Nazi-occupied Poland. Aderet claims that I’m not an expert in Chinese philosophy after I wrote that the murder and saving of Jews in Poland are two intertwined phenomena that characterized the reality created by the German occupation. Indeed, I’m no expert in Chinese philosophy, but I am one on the history of the Holocaust.