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The Globe and Mail Vanessa Gera and Monika Scislowska WARSAW, Poland Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account Getting audio file ... This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy. Full Disclaimer The Associated Press A court in Warsaw ruled Tuesday that two prominent Holocaust researchers must apologize to a woman who claimed her deceased uncle had been slandered in a hi...

The Sudanese government and a major rebel group from its southern Nuba Mountains on Sunday signed a document which paves... Malinowski’s niece, 81-year-old Filomena Leszczynska, accused the scholars of fabricating her uncle’s crimes, insisting that he was a hero who had saved Jews. The court’s decision means that Engelking and Grabowski are obliged to provide Leszczynska with a written apology for having provided “inaccurate information” about her uncle and for “violating his honor....

by Colin Perkel, The Canadian Press Posted Feb 9, 2021 4:10 pm ADT Last Updated Feb 9, 2021 at 4:25 pm ADT TORONTO — A Polish court order that an eminent Canadian historian and his co-editor apologize for suggesting a man helped kill Jews during the Second World World has angered Jewish human rights activists in Canada and abroad. They say the ruling against Jan Grabowski and Barbara Engelking is part of an ongoing effort to obscure Polish complicity in the genocide of Jews during the Holocau...

Barbara Engelking and Jan Grabowski were sued by the 81-year-old niece of a wartime village elder who claimed a book they co-edited defames her deceased uncle's memory by suggesting he had a role in the slaughter of Jews

Follow Feb. 8, 2021 Readers who have been following the stories written by Haaretz correspondent Ofer Aderet on the research of historian Jan Grabowski (Haaretz, Jan. 18, Jan. 27 and Jan. 31, 2021) could reach the conclusion that Poland is now conducting a trial that resembles the famous Dreyfus trial that took place in France at the end of the 19th century. Prof. Grabowski, a Polish historian who lives in Canada today and teaches at Ottawa University, and whose Jewish father fought in the War...

A Massacre in a Forest Becomes a Test of Poland’s Pushback on Wartime Blame Two researchers are on trial for writing that a Polish mayor was complicit in a massacre. Critics say the government is trying to emphasize Polish suffering in World War II and downplay complicity in Nazi crimes. “The war ended 75 years ago, but it still lives on in our bones. It will last forever,” Zygmunt Malinowski recalled last week during a visit to the forest memorial stone, right, where Jews were ...

Golden Globes mystery: How often do musicals win over comedies? Matthew Stewart Most moviegoers who witnessed the 2020 Sundance Film Festival premiere of “Palm Springs” probably did not expect that it would be the only traditional comedy nominated for Best Musical or Comedy at this year’s Golden Globes. After all, comedies (and dramedies) have disproportionately dominated the category for the past decade, while only eight musicals have managed to snag bids. However, the 20...

ABC News Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? OffOn Two renowned Holocaust historians are being sued for $27,000. • 10 min read Peter Jennings joined Wiesel on the 40th anniversary of the Holocaust camp’s liberation.AP LONDON and MOSCOW -- An unusual libel case in Poland pertaining to the Holocaust has the potential to affect both the future of academic research as well as how the country comes to grips with its treatment of Jews during WWII, advocates say. Th...

The frequent New York Times contributor facing criminal charges for allegedly serving as an unregistered, paid agent of the government... In tandem with the insistence that Jews were no more persecuted by the occupiers than any other nationality, the Soviets came up with another insidious myth: that “Zionists” had actively collaborated with the Nazi oppression of the Jews to the point that they were equally culpable for the massacres that followed. This line was eagerly swallowed the Arab w...

A law prohibiting false accusations of Poland's role in the Holocaust has seen two renowned historians sued for $27,000 in a controversial libel case.