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Since it won power in 2015, the conservative ruling party, Law and Justice, has sought to discourage investigations into Polish wrongdoing during the wartime German occupation, preferring instead to almost exclusively stress Polish heroism and suffering. The aim is to promote national pride but critics say the government has been whitewashing the fact that some Poles also collaborated in the German murder of Jews. The Israeli Holocaust museum Yad Vashem said the legal effort “constitutes a serious attack on free and open research.” A number of other historical institutions have condemned the case as the verdict nears, with the Paris-based Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah describing it Tuesday as a “witch hunt” and a “pernicious invasion into the very heart of research.”

France generalBarbara engelkingMarkus schreiberJan grabowskiZygmunt stepinskiEdward malinowskiPawel jablonskiFilomena leszczynskaMark weitzmanHolocaust researchAssociated pressFoundation for the memory of shoahUniversity of ottawaSimon wiesenthal centerHolocaust memorial on international remembrance dayLeague against defamation