Jan Grabowski has long received criticism in Poland over his research into crimes against Jews committed by Poles during World War Two.
Holocaust
Polish city commemorates WWII massacre of Jewish children
The German Nazi occupiers murdered 45 Jewish children who had survived the liquidation of Kielce’s ghetto.
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Wywiad: Żydowscy policjanci byli jednocześnie narzędziem i ofiarami Zagłady
Agnieszka Wądołowska
Historia żydowskich policjantów to jedno z najbardziej złożonych zagadnień w badaniach nad Holocaustem.
Interview: Jewish ghetto police were both “a tool and a victim of the Holocaust”
Agnieszka Wądołowska
We speak with historian Katarzyna Person about her award-winning research.
Splintered histories: confronting the legacy of wartime pogroms in rural Poland
Agnieszka Wądołowska
A family secret led an author to explore a painful issue.
Poles see Auschwitz primarily as site of Polish martyrdom not Jewish suffering, finds study
The research also finds significant gaps in factual knowledge about the camp’s victims among Poles.
London play about Polish WW2 hero Karski offers powerful lessons from the Holocaust
Stanisław Skarżyński
The story of a Polish underground courier raises uncomfortable questions about our responses to genocide.
“Do not be indifferent”: the most powerful (and political) moments from Auschwitz commemoration
Amid the commemorations, politics was never far from the surface.
Polish MEP condemned for comparing treatment of animals to Nazi camps
Sylwia Spurek has been criticised for a Twitter post depicting cattle as Jews in concentration camps.
We must fight anti-Polonism just as we have fought antisemitism, says Polish PM
The prime minister also supported President Duda’s decision not to travel to Israel to “listen to Putin’s lies”.
Russia claims “Polish antisemitism facilitated Nazi camps and Holocaust”, EU condemns “false history”
Poland “must apologise to the whole world” for “creating fertile ground for the Holocaust”, said the State Duma speaker.
Poland’s president is right to boycott Auschwitz commemoration in Israel
Daniel Tilles
Whatever one thinks of the Polish government’s historical policy, Poland must be properly represented.
New evidence of how Polish diplomats helped Jews survive Holocaust with fake passports
Percy Metcalfe
The diplomats in Switzerland forged up to 10,000 passports intended for Jews trapped in German-occupied Europe.
Prosecutors drop four-year investigation into Holocaust historian for “insulting Polish nation”
Jan Gross was accused of “insulting the Polish nation”, a crime that carries up to three years in prison. But prosecutors found no “convincing” evidence.
