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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 649

Jan Grabowski

Holocaust historian and University of Ottawa Prof. Jan Grabowski. (Katarzyna Markusz)
June 21, 2024, 9:01 am
What Matters Now to Prof. Jan Grabowski: Appropriation of Holocaust terms in Gaza war
Historian discusses how the definitions of the terms ‘genocide’ and ‘Zionists’ are usurped and cheapened in an effort to delegitimize the Jewish state during the war against Hamas
By ToI Staff
Yad Vashem chief Dani Dayan in the Hall of Names at the Jerusalem museum, undated. (Alex Kolomoisky)
September 3, 2023, 10:03 am
123 Holocaust experts: Gov’t attack on Yad Vashem chief threatens memory of 6 million
Educators from around the world voice ‘great concern’ over coalition’s ostensible effort to dismiss Dani Dayan and replace him with a political appointment
By ToI Staff
File: Polish Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich, second from right in blue tie, speaks next to Catholic clergymen at the Jedwabne commemoration ceremony, July 11, 2021. (Krzysztof Bielawski)
September 11, 2022, 4:35 pm
In its $1.3t demand from Germany, Poland seeks reparations for Jews killed by Poles
Leading Polish researcher decries government report as ‘political, not historical,’ says its authors willfully ignored Polish involvement in atrocities
By Judah Ari Gross
Holocaust scholars Barbara Engelking, left, and Jan Grabowski, right. (Yad Vashem via AP / courtesy)
August 16, 2021, 8:20 pm
Holocaust scholars in Poland win closely watched libel case on appeal
Jan Grabowski and Barbara Engelking were ordered in February to apologize for their research on Poles who collaborated with Nazis
By AP and ToI Staff
Holocaust scholars Barbara Engelking, left, and Jan Grabowski, right. (Yad Vashem via AP / courtesy)
February 11, 2021, 6:06 pm
Yad Vashem slams Polish court ruling that Holocaust scholars must apologize
Holocaust museum says decision ‘a real threat to academic and press freedom’ after researchers were censured for harming honor of man they said helped kill Jews in WWII
By ToI Staff
Holocaust scholars Barbara Engelking, left, and Jan Grabowski, right. (Yad Vashem via AP / courtesy)
February 9, 2021, 8:41 pm
Poland orders Holocaust scholars to apologize in case that could muzzle research
Court rules Barbara Engelking and Jan Grabowski disseminated false information and harmed the honor of a man they said helped kill Jews in WWII; his niece brought the suit
By Vanessa Gera and MONIKA SCISLOWSKA
A group of Polish Jews are led away for deportation by German SS soldiers, during the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto by German troops after an uprising in the Jewish quarter, in 1943. (AP Photo)
February 2, 2021, 8:09 pm
Libel case could determine future freedom of Holocaust research in Poland
Government-funded group is backing private suit against 2 researchers over claim in their historical work that a local wartime hero was also complicit in murder of dozens of Jews
By Vanessa Gera
A sign at the entrance to the village of Malinowo, Poland. (Google Maps)
January 19, 2021, 12:39 pm
Polish Holocaust scholars on trial for suggesting mayor helped kill 22 Jews
Jan Grabowski and Barbara Engelking were sued for revisiting post-WWII claim against Malinowo mayor Edward Malinowski
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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. (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
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