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Last modified on Sun 4 Apr 2021 13.07 EDT The poet Adam Zagajewski, who has died aged 75, was one of the leading voices of Poland’s Nowa Fala (new wave), also known as the Generation of ’68 – a loose group of poets who opposed the corruption of language imposed by communism and promoted the simplicity and honesty of their native tongue. Like many of his generation, informed by the horrors of the second world war, Zagajewski became focused on poetry’s ethical obligations in understandin...

"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 ...

Print The California African American Museum board of directors unanimously voted Monday to name Cameron Shaw as the institution’s new executive director. Since September 2019, Shaw has served as CAAM’s deputy director and chief curator, overseeing curatorial affairs, education and public programming and communications and marketing efforts. Shaw’s appointment follows the retirement of George O. Davis, who was the executive director since 2015. A native Angeleno, Shaw recalled visiting...

Quite simply, Poland seeks to establish national honor through historical amnesia.

To celebrate President's Day, George Strait remembered the time that he and his family visited then-President George H.W. Bush.

Chinas Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine was 67% effective in preventing symptomatic infection, data from a huge real-world study in Chile has... The law has served as the central instrument of a broader campaign by Poland’s conservative nationalist government to depict Poles solely as victims of the Nazis who saved their Jewish neighbors whenever they were able to do so — a version of World War II history that Grabowski described as “mythology.” At issue in the libel case was a brief passage in...

From the blog of Sheldon Kirshner at The Times of Israel

We have commented before on Poland’s effort to reframe Holocaust history, and to whitewash the involvement of Polish citizens in Nazi atrocities during the Holocaust. The effort attracted attention a