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Katarzyna Markusz. (Screen capture: YouTube)
February 23, 2021, 1:08 pm
Journalist probed for reporting on Poles’ Holocaust complicity says case closed
Reporter Katarzyna Markusz vows to keep recounting her country’s role in the genocide of European Jews and the ongoing ‘widespread aversion of Poles’ toward Jewish people
By TOI staff
Tomasz Greniuch, in the center holding papers, makes a gesture that appears to be a Nazi salute at a far-right event in Poland in 2007. (Bartosz Siedlik, courtesy of Gazeta Wyborcza via JTA)
February 22, 2021, 9:40 pm
Polish state historian resigns after far-right past revealed
Tomasz Greniuch steps down as local head of Institute of National Remembrance, whose role is to document Nazi and communist crimes carried out on Polish soil
By Vanessa Gera
Tomasz Greniuch, in the center holding papers, makes a gesture that appears to be a Nazi salute at a far-right event in Poland in 2007. (Bartosz Siedlik, courtesy of Gazeta Wyborcza via JTA)
February 19, 2021, 6:52 am
State historian in Poland seen in pictures from 2007 giving Nazi salute
Man appointed to senior post at state historical research institution is tied to Polish far-right ONR group
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Dutch National Archives (courtesy)
February 15, 2021, 2:54 am
Poland’s ‘legislation’ of Holocaust history vs. Netherlands’ open-access archive
As Holocaust history goes on trial in Poland, files on 300,000 Nazi ‘collaborators’ in the Netherlands have already been picked apart — and publicized — for two decades
By Matt Lebovic
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
Roses with a note saying "#weremember" are placed on the Holocaust Memorial on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, in Berlin, Germany, January 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
February 11, 2021, 8:32 am
Panel meets to discuss Berlin memorial to Polish victims of WWII
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas says that while Holocaust ‘rightly takes the central place in our memory, there are still gaps elsewhere’ including suffering of Poles in WWII
By Agencies
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
Beginning in 1942, Jews in the Lodz ghetto of Nazi-occupied Poland were deported to death camps including Chelmno and Auschwitz-Birkenau. (Yad Vashem)
February 9, 2021, 12:44 pm
Poland awaits verdict in libel case that could muzzle Holocaust research
Historians say lawsuit is attempt to discredit their findings and discourage other researchers from investigating the truth about Polish involvement in mass murder of Jews
By Vanessa Gera
Katarzyna Markusz. (Screen capture: YouTube)
February 7, 2021, 8:04 pm
Polish police probe journalist for writing about Poles’ Holocaust complicity
Katarzyna Markusz questioned on suspicion of violating law against defaming country after anonymous complaint filed over 2020 article; faces up to 3 years in jail
By TOI staff
A group of Polish Jews are led away for deportation by German SS soldiers, in April/May 1943, during the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto by German troops after an uprising in the Jewish quarter, 1943. (AP Photo)
February 7, 2021, 6:02 am
Holocaust historians face verdict in Poland defamation trial
Researchers co-edited a book that documented cases of complicity of Catholic Poles in the genocide of Jews during WWII; trial could determine future of research
By Stanislaw Waszak
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
In this photo dated March 7, 2017, Teresa Zabinska, the daughter of Jan and Antonina Zabinski, prior to the gala screening of 'The Zookeeper's Wife' movie (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz, FILE)
February 1, 2021, 2:54 pm
Daughter of Warsaw Zoo directors who saved 300 Jews in Holocaust dies at 77
Zoo says Teresa Zabinska-Zawadzki ‘talked with pride about her parents and their heroism’ made famous in ‘The Zookeeper’s Wife’
By AP
Marek Magierowski
January 26, 2021, 8:10 pm
Marek Magierowski
The rich, forgotten history of Poland and the Jews
The history of our nations is invariably linked with the 6 dreadful years of World War II, yet for centuries, Jews found a safe haven in our country
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
The Polish academic edition of Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' (L) is seen next to an original edition of the book from 1942 (R) on the table of Eugeniusz Cezary Król, author of the translation and historical commentary of the academic edition, in his flat in Warsaw, on January 15, 2021. (Photo by Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP)
January 18, 2021, 3:54 pm
Mein Kampf academic edition published in Poland as ‘homage to victims’
Publishers won’t hold publicity campaign for translation of Hitler’s 1925 book and have set a high price to ensure it isn’t widely accessible
By Bernard OSSER
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