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Jan Grabowski (Courtesy)
November 16, 2018, 7:36 pm
Holocaust scholar sues group that said he ‘slandered’ Poland
Historian Jan Grabowski faced a public campaign orchestrated by the Polish League Against Defamation for his work on how some Poles helped hunt down Jews who escaped the Nazis
By Vanessa Gera
A Jewish boy surrenders in Warsaw -- the most well-known photograph taken during the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising, in which a boy holds his hands over his head while SS-Rottenführer Josef Blösche points a submachine gun in his direction. (Wikipedia, public domain)
May 11, 2018, 5:45 pm
Poles fatally betrayed most of country’s Jews in hiding from Nazis, study claims
Devastating research by Warsaw-based group indicates ordinary citizens played a role in hundreds of thousands of deaths — significantly higher than previous estimates
By JTA
Holocaust survivors and activists take part at a protest at the Polish embassy in Tel Aviv, February 8, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
February 8, 2018, 5:08 pm
Complicity of Poles in the deaths of Jews is highly underestimated, scholars say
According to a 1970 article, 200,000 Jews died at the hands of their Polish neighbors. A new law in Poland could make it difficult to publish these findings today
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Historian Jan Grabowski is discovering many Jews who hid from the Nazis were slaughtered by their Polish neighbors. (photo credit: courtesy)
June 13, 2017, 7:28 am
Historians defend prof who wrote of Poles’ Holocaust complicity
Polish nationalists lash Jan Grabowski’s book ‘Hunt for the Jews,’ which was honored by Yad Vashem in 2014
By JTA
Men sit in village square in Iwaniska, Poland in 'Scandal in Ivansk' (Blumenfeld Pictures)
May 9, 2017, 1:54 am
New documentary digs up controversy as Polish Jewish cemetery restored
In ‘Scandal in Ivansk,’ opening May 9, a Canadian-Israeli filmmaker charts the maelstrom surrounding Poles’ relationship to the word ‘collaborators’ in a new nationalist era
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Prof. Jan Grabowski, author of 'Hunt for the Jews: Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland.' (YouTube screenshot)
December 8, 2014, 3:01 pm
‘Hunt for the Jews’ snags Yad Vashem book prize
Authored by Prof. Jan Grabowski of the University of Ottawa, text on Poles’ betrayal of their Jewish neighbors wins award
By JTA
Agata Trzebuchowska as Ida Lebenstein, right, and Agata Kulesza as Wanda Gruz in the Polish fiIm 'Ida.' (Courtesy photo via JTA)
April 27, 2014, 4:02 am
New Polish films portray competing Holocaust histories
There are two narratives in Poland today — one emphasizing collaboration with the Nazis and the other celebrating rescuers of Jews
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Historian Jan Grabowski is discovering many Jews who hid from the Nazis were slaughtered by their Polish neighbors. (photo credit: courtesy)
October 31, 2013, 10:50 am
New book examines Poles who killed Jews during WWII
A history professor records the massacres of Jews by their neighbors in his native Poland, until now a little-told chapter of Holocaust history
By Nissan Tzur
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