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Poland's deputy FM Pawel Jablonski, visiting Israel as the two countries look to mend ties, says his compatriots are wrongly painted as perpetrators

Grzegorz Braun, of the Confederation party, later said he disrupted the event to defend Poland’s good name against Grabowski’s “historical propaganda.” 

Commercial sex workers are being blamed for the spike in HIV infections in Taita Taveta county.

WARSAW, Poland — An appellate court in Poland on Monday rejected a lawsuit brought against two Holocaust scholars - one of them an Ottawa professor - in a case that has been closely watched because . . .

It comes days after Poland passed a new law that sets a 30-year limit on restitution claims for property stolen by the Nazis during World War II, which has led to a row between Israel and Poland.

Millions of Americans still face housing insecurity as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, with nearly 15 percent behind on rent payments at the end of June. New York City not only houses the majority of the State’s renters but also had relatively high rates of rent-burdened tenants to the pandemic.

Image taken at the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Credit: Snappy Goat) Not all research is at stake, however, only work that reveals the role of ethnic Poles in the persecution of Poland’s Jews. This year, for the first time in history, an individual used Poland’s “Holocaust Law” to sue in a civil court. This was also the first time that the law, which forbids blaming the Polish nation for the crimes of the Holocaust, was used against academics—two Polish Holoca...

‘’Yad Vashem acknowledges the court’s verdict, but remains deeply disturbed by its implications.  Any attempt to limit academic and public discourse through political or legal pressure is unacceptable and constitutes a substantive blow to academic freedom,’’ said a statement issued by the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem.   Yad Vashem has expressed ‘’profound concern’’ regarding the recent verdict rendered by a Polish court in a libel case against two Holocaus...

"This is a fairly unprecedented verdict which strikes at the heart of what I as a historian do," Grabowski said. "This verdict, if upheld on our appeal, which will follow, means an end to independent research of the history of the Holocaust and, I would argue, of many other parts of Polish history which run contrary to the official myths and legends espoused by the Polish state today." Nine researchers, including Grabowski, spent six years writing a 1,700-page book called "Night Without End: Th...

Yad Vashem deeply disturbed by Polish court verdict   February 26, 2021 (JNS) — Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial center said on Thursday that it was “deeply disturbed” by the implications of a Polish court’s recent ruling in a libel case involving the alleged wartime actions of Edward Malinowski, the former mayor of Malinowo, Poland. On Tuesday, the court ordered professors Jan Grabowski and Barbara Engelking, the editors of “Night Without End: The Fate of Jews in Selected ...