(JTA) In the verdict of a lawsuit seen by some as significant for the future of Holocaust research and freedom of expression in Poland, a Warsaw court ordered two historians to publicly apologize for part of their research into a Holocaust pogrom.
In their 2018 book “Night Without an End,” a 1,700-page tome about Polish collaboration during World War II, historians Jan Grabowski and Barbara Engelking wrote that Edward Malinowski, the late mayor of the village of Malinowo, told Nazi officers where a group of Jews were hiding in a forest. The group of “dozens” were all killed.
Malinowski was acquitted in a postwar trial of collaborating with Nazis, and his niece sued the scholars for $26,000, alleging that they tarnished her uncle’s legacy.
In the verdict of a lawsuit seen by some as significant for the future of Holocaust research and freedom of expression in Poland, a Warsaw court ordered two historians to publicly apologize for part of their research into a Holocaust pogrom.
Holocaust historians ordered to apologize in Polish libel suit
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A Warsaw judge ordered two Holocaust historians to apologize for violating the honor of a deceased Polish village mayor who was accused of collaborating with the Nazis to hunt down Jewish residents. More than 90% of Polish Jews were murdered during the Nazi occupation at camps like Auschwitz, now a museum in Oswiecim, Poland. File Photo by Debbie Hill/UPI | License Photo
Feb. 9 (UPI) Two Holocaust historians were ordered on Tuesday by a Warsaw District Court judge to apologize for violating the honor of a Polish village mayor during World War II in a civil libel suit brought by the mayor s 80-year-old niece.